The Hidden Cost Of Economic Development
Subtitle: The Biological Standard Of Living In Antebellum Pennsylvania (Modern Economic and Social History)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: June 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780754641193
Subjects: American history; Development economics; Development studies; c 1800 to c 1900; Modern - General; Economics - Macroeconomics; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; Pennsylvania; Cost and standard of living; 19th century; History; Stature
First sentence: The nineteenth-century American farmer quoted above questioned the ultimate value of the involvement in markets at a time when market participation, although nearly universal in some areas, was neither the basis for all consumption nor completely accepted by the populace.