G Wright - New South: Revolutions in the Southern Economy …, 1986 - penguin.co.nz
A lively new illustrated history of the South Island, Old South tells a story of triumphs,
tragedies and earnest hopes. Noted historian Matthew Wright paints a vibrant picture of
mainland life from the 1840s, of the rise and fall of the first privately founded Pakeha ...
RR Nelson… - Journal of Economic Literature, 1992 - JSTOR
Both authors of this essay have been working for some time on the questions addressed
here. Nelson's wbrk was supported by the Sloan Foundation through its grant to the
Consortium on Competition and Cooperation. Wright was supported by the Center for ...
G Wright - The American Economic Review, 1990 - JSTOR
The United States became the world's preeminent manufacturing nation at the turn of the
twentieth century. This study considers the bases for this success by examining the factor
content of trade in manufactured goods. Surprisingly, the most distinctive characteristic of ...
G Wright - 1978 - getcited.org
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SB Carter, SS Gartner, MR Haines, AL Olmstead… - 2006 - economics.ucr.edu
Table and figure references in angle brackets (<>) refer to data tables that will appear in a
number of different chapters in Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition.
The format was devised, in collaboration with Cambridge University Press, to meet ...
G Wright - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1974 - JSTOR
The New Deal years offer a laboratory for testing the hypothesis that political behavior in a
democracy can be understood as a rational effort to maximize the prospects of electoral
success. This hypothesis is central to the" economic" theories of politics developed and ...
PA David… - 1999 - economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk
The phenomenon of recurring prolonged swings in the total factor productivity (TFP) growth
rate is approached in this paper by examining a particular episode in earlier twentieth
century economic history. A marked acceleration of productivity growth in US ...
AP DAVID… - Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997 - Oxford Univ Press
Abstract The USA became the world's leading mineral-producing nation between 1870 and
1910, a development paralleled by the rising resource-intensity of American manufacturing.
This paper challenges the premise that resource abundance simply reflected the country's ...
G Wright - 1986 - getcited.org
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G Wright… - Challenge, 2004 - ME Sharpe
Recent studies assert that natural-resource abundance (particularly of minerals) has
adverse consequences for economic growth. But these two economists argue that it is
inappropriate to equate development of mineral resources with terms such as “windfalls” ...
G Wright… - Journal of Economic History, 1975 - JSTOR
We propose an explanation for the abandonment of self-sufficiency in foods by the US South
between 1860 and 1880. The argument focuses on crop-mix decisions by small farmers in
the presence of risk. The rise of tenancy and the drastic fall in farm size caused many ...
[CITATION] The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households
G Wright - Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century (New …, 1978
G Wright - 1999 - nber.org
What is the relationship between the performance of business firms and the growth of the
national economy? Economists who study economic growth commonly treat nations
themselves as the performing units that save, invest, and experience technological ...
G Wright - The Economic Journal, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
An economic historian does not get far in trying to interpret the comparative performance of
national economies, without confronting issues surrounding the conceptualisation and
measurement of technology. Thus I have found myself in recent years wrestling with the ...
G Wright - Agricultural History, 1970 - JSTOR
Economic issues are among the most basic of the many disputed and still largely unsettled
questions concerning the antebellum history of the American South. Historians have argued,
for example, over whether slavery was a profitable and viable economic institution in 1860 ...
PA David, G Wright… - 1999 - 129.3.20.41
Abstract A marked acceleration of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in US manufacturing
followed World War I. This development contributed substantially to the absolute and relative
rise of the domestic economy's aggregate TFP residual, which is observed when the “ ...
GR Saxonhouse… - The Economic History Review, 1984 - Wiley Online Library
The authors are grateful to both William Lazonick and Lars Sandberg for careful criticism of
an earlier draft of this paper, though neither should be held responsible for any of the
interpretations advanced. We also wish to thank NFR Crafts, Paul David, Alexander Field, ...
G Wright - The Journal of Economic History, 1974 - Cambridge Univ Press
As evidence has accumulated on the prosperity of the American South under slavery prior to
the Civil War, attention has turned to a search for explanations for the apparent stagnation of
the southern economy after the Civil War. One class of explanations involves the ...
G Wright - The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1987 - JSTOR
A s recently as twenty-five years ago, regional economic backwardness in the states of the
traditional American South was considered an intractable problem of continuing national
concern. Poverty and economic stagnation seemed rooted in Southern culture, the same ...
G Wright - 2006 - books.google.com
" Through an original analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents a
fresh look a the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era.
Wright draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organization (the aspect that ...
G Wright - Processed. Stanford University, 2001 - www-siepr.stanford.edu
Resource-based economic growth has had a bad press for some time. Adam Smith
wrote:“Projects of mining, instead of replacing the capital employed in them, together with
the ordinary profits of stock, commonly absorb both capital and stock. They are the ...
G Wright - The American Economic Review, 1979 - JSTOR
The managing editor of this Review has very kindly invited me to comment on the recent
reiteration by Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman (hereafter, FE) of their views on the
efficiency of American slave agriculture (1977). Based on my reading of the article, my ...
G Wright… - … on Sector Reform in Latin America. …, 2003 - www-siepr.stanford.edu
Abstract Recent studies assert that natural resource abundance (particularly minerals) has
adverse consequences for economic growth. This paper subjects this “resource curse”
hypothesis to critical scrutiny. Our central point is that it is inappropriate to equate ...
G Wright - The Journal of Economic History, 1999 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract This address urges Americanists to take the post–World War II era on board as
economic history, using the Civil Rights Revolution to set an example. The speed and
sweepof the movement's success illustrates the dynamics of an “unanticipated revolution” ...
G Wright - Journal of Economic History, 1979 - Cambridge Univ Press
Labor costs historically have been decisive in determining the location of cotton textile
production. Despite an apparent advantage in wage rates, however, the southern industry
did not achieve sustained relative progress before about 1875. This study argues that in ...
K Clay… - Explorations in Economic History, 2005 - Elsevier
The paper reconsiders the nature of mining districts and property rights during the California
gold rush. According to a widely accepted view advanced by Umbeck [Explorations in
Economic History 14 (1977) 197; A Theory of Property Rights with Application to the ...
G Wright… - Available on line at http://www-econ. …, 2002 - www-siepr.stanford.edu
Abstract Recent literature argues that natural resource abundance is likely to be bad for
economic growth. This paper provides a counterargument by highlighting examples of
successful resource-based development. The first is historical: the United States from the ...
G Wright - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1971 - JSTOR
ROWTH and fluctuation in American Gcotton comprise a colorful chapter in antebellum
history, of undeniable importance for the economic and political development of the country.
Cotton was easily the most important export commodity of the United States prior to the ...
G Wright - The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1981 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract An interpretation of the Southern capture of the American cotton textile market is
presented, emphasizing capital accumulation and a process of “maturation” of the labor
force. The market was divided along lines of product quality, and the precise rate of ...
P Passell… - The Journal of Political Economy, 1972 - JSTOR
When the effects of land expansion on cotton prices are set against the effects on slave
productivity, a partial equilibrium analysis suggests that the rapid westward migration may
actually have lowered slave prices. A more general analysis which incorporates the ...
[CITATION] Resource abundance and American economic leadership
PA David… - Center for Economic Policy Research Paper, 1991
[CITATION] Prosperity, progress and American slavery
G Wright - Paul A. David et. al, 1976
G Saxonhouse… - The Economic History Review, 1987 - Wiley Online Library
The authors are grateful for the assistance of John Brown in preparing this note. The
research project discussed here is supported by the Committee on Comparative Research
on Market Economies (CCHROME) at the University of Michigan.
[CITATION] Econometric studies of history
G Wright - Frontiers of Quantitative Economics, North-Holland, …, 1971
[CITATION] Race, human capital, and labour markets in American history
W Whatley… - Labour Market Evolution. London and New York: …, 1994
[CITATION] Postbellum Southern labor markets
G Wright - Quantity and Quiddity, 1987
[CITATION] Two forms of cheap labor in textile history
G Saxonhouse… - Saxonhouse and Wright (eds.), Technique, Spirit and …, 1984
G Wright - Explorations in Economic History, 1979 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract EXPLORATIONS ECONOMIC HISTORY Freedom and the Southern GAVIN
WRIGHT Economy Department Economics University Michigan Writing Hinton Helper
predicted that three quarters century hence slavery abolished within the next ten years ...
R Nelson… - … of Productivity: Cross-National Studies and …, 1994 - books.google.com
The surge of research and writing on convergence in recent years has been motivated, in
part, by a sharpening awareness of how rapidly other countries have been catching up to
the United States, the clear twentieth-century world leader in productivity and technology ( ...
G Saxonhouse… - The Fibre That Changed the …, 2000 - www-siepr.stanford.edu
Abstract As the first truly global industry, cotton textiles offers unique opportunities for
tracking international differences in productivity and in rates of progress through time. In
preparing this paper, we have completed an exhaustive compilation of all sales of ring ...
G Wright - Reviews in American History, 1982 - JSTOR
An invitation to survey a decade of research on southern economic history is an invitation to
ignore the advice of my teacher, William N. Parker, not to treat history as" the battle of the
books." In this field the temptation is particularly strong. Jonathan Wiener begins another ...
G Wright - Explorations in Economic History, 1975 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract Explorations Economic History Slavery and the Cotton Boom GAVIN University
WRIGHT Michigan From the cotton gin until World War the pace economic expansion the
American South was principally governed the rate growth world cotton demand From this ...
G Wright - Agricultural history, 1988 - JSTOR
Behind the American record of output and productivity growth have lain many production
and investment decisions made by millions of separate economic units. Farmers who made
these decisions were small businessmen holding from thirty to a few hundred acres: their ...
G Wright - 1969 - en.scientificcommons.org
Publication View. 2424898. The economics of cotton in the antebellum South. (1969).
Wright, Gavin. Abstract. Thesis - Yale University. Publication details. Repository, OCLC's
Experimental Thesis Catalog (United States). Keywords, ...
G Wright - The future of economics, 1995 - books.google.com
What would a modern economist want to learn from American labor history? Economists
interested in long-term growth and development might want to begin with the material
conditions of the laboring classes, the growth of worker real incomes and living standards ...
G Wright - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1987 - JSTOR
Capitalism and Slavery on the Islands: A Lesson from the Mainland In selecting a title for his
now-classic book, Williams chose to relate one of the most palpable realities of Western
economic history to one of the slipperiest abstractions of the Western intellectual heritage. ...
G Wright… - Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University, 2002 - weber.ucsd.edu
Abstract Recent literature argues that natural resource abundance is likely to be bad for
economic growth. This paper provides a counterargument by highlighting examples of
successful resource-based development. The first is historical: the United States from the ...
[CITATION] Rings and mules around the world: a comparative study in technological choice
G Saxonhouse… - Research in Economic History, 1984
CL Foote, WC Whatley… - Journal of Labor Economics, 2003 - JSTOR
The 1918-47 employee records of the Ford Motor Company provide a rare opportunity to
study a firm willing to hire black workers when similar firms would not. The evidence
suggests that Ford did profit from discrimination elsewhere, but not by paying blacks less ...
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G Wright - Agricultural history, 2003 - JSTOR
This essay considers the role of slavery in American agricultural history by examining the
impact of political decisions during the period when the boundary between free and slave
states was not yet settled. This boundary was not dictated by geographic imperatives. In ...
G Wright - Journal of Economic Literature, 1991 - JSTOR
ECONOMIC HISTORY IS IN THE MIDST of a quiet revolution. Two decades ago,
cliometricians were bent on showing that economic analysis could be applied even to the
study of faroff times and places. In this way they hoped to bring a somewhat stodgy ...
G Wright - The Journal of Economic History, 1973 - JSTOR
The slave economy of the antebellum South has been visited and revisited so many times
that we are now beginning to get surveys of surveys. No fewer than three of the articles
collected by Hugh Aitken in Did Slavery Pay?(Boston: Houghton Mifilin Company, 1971) ...
[CITATION] The economics and politics of slavery and freedom in the US South
G Wright - The Meaning of Freedom: Economics, Politics, and …, 1992
YX Kong, G Wright, K Pesudovs… - Clinical and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Horner syndrome is an uncommon but important clinical entity, representing interruption of
the sympathetic pathway to the eye and face. Horner syndrome is almost always diagnosed
clinically, though pharmacological testing can be used to confirm the diagnosis. Imaging ...
[CITATION] Economic Consequences of the Southern Protest Movement
G Wright - New Directions in Civil Rights Studies
[CITATION] Getting started in the auto industry: Black workers at the Ford Motor Company, 1918-1947
W Whatley, G Wright… - American Economic Association, Washington, DC, 1990
[CITATION] The economic determinants of new deal spending
G Wright - Review of Economics and Statistics, 1974
M Shiells… - Explorations in Economic History, 1983 - ideas.repec.org
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
[CITATION] Exorcizing the Resource Curse: Minerals as a Knowledge Industry
G Wright… - Past and Present, Unpublished manuscript, Stanford …, 2002
[CITATION] The origins and economic significance of free labor in America
G Wright - 1995 - Mimeo, Faculty of Economics and …
[CITATION] American Industrial Leadership, 1879-1940: Trade in Manufactures
G Wright - 1987 - October
AO Krueger, R Landau, T Taylor… - The Mosaic of Economic …, 1996 - books.google.com
Whether one takes a long view over several centuries, or a shorter view of the post-Second
World War period, the increased integration of the world economy has been a striking trend.
Throughout almost all of the two centuries for which estimates are available, world trade ...
WN Parker, GR Saxonhouse… - 1984 - getcited.org
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[CITATION] The Origin of American Industrial Success, 1879–1940
W Gavin - American Economic Review, 1990
G Wright - The Journal of Economic History, 1973 - Cambridge Univ Press
These are three good papers by four outstanding scholars. But rather than dwell on the
considerable merits of the papers or the writers, I think my function as discussant will be
better served by taking a critical stance toward all of them. Despite the fact that the three ...
[CITATION] Segregation and Racial Wage Differentials in the South Before World War II
G Wright - 1988 - Working Paper, Stanford U., Dept. of …
[CITATION] History and the Future of Economics
G Wright - Parker (ed.), 1986
[CITATION] Black and White Labor in the Old New South
G Wright - Business in the New South, ed., Fred Bateman ( …, 1981
G Wright - The Global Economy in the 1990s: a Long-Run …, 2006 - stanford.edu
7.1 Introduction i лке most academic disciplines, economics has become highly specialized.
The purpose of this chapter is to interpret the productivity record of the 1990s in hislorical
context, by drawing together evidence from several lines of research that lend to proceed ...
[CITATION] Persisting Dixie: The south as an economic region
G Wright - The American south in the twentieth century, 2005
[CITATION] The Role of Nationhood in the Economic Development of the United States
G Wright - 2003 - Nation, State and the Economy in …
[CITATION] Employee Records of the Ford Motor Company [Detroit Area], 1918-1947
WC Whatley, G Wright… - 1995 - Inter-university Consortium for …
G Wright - Agricultural History, 1970 - JSTOR
The term" manuscript census" used in the studies in this issue refers to the original, signed
records filed by the census enumerators, containing information on each family, slaveholder,
and farm visited. These records for the census years 1850-1880 are on deposit in state ...
G Wright - unpublished MS, Stanford University, 2007 - cirje.eu-tokyo.ac.jp
In recent years many American business and political leaders have expressed
apprehension about potential loss of the country's technological leadership in the world,
reviving a discussion that was last active during the 1980s and early 1990s. Evaluating ...
K Clay… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: The paper reconsiders the nature of mining districts and property rights during the
California gold rush. According to a widely accepted view advanced by Umbeck (1977,
1981), in the absence of effective legal authority, district codes established secure ...
[CITATION] VThe Origins of American Industrial Success
G Wright - V American Economic Review, 1990
[CITATION] Table Db56–59 Crude Petroleum–Average Value, Foreign Trade, and Proved Reserves: 1859–2001
S Carter, SS Gartner, M Haines, A Olmstead… - Historical Statistics of the …, 2006
[CITATION] Race and Ethnicity: Population, Vital Processes, and Education
SB Carter, MR Haines, R Sutch… - Historical Statistics of the United States, …, 2005
C Calomiris, JH Hubbard, J Mokyr… - unpublished ms. …, 1985 - mpls.frb.org
I. Introduction This paper challenges the monetarist explanation of exchange rate changes
and corresponding price inflation and deflation offered by Friedman and Schwartz (1963) for
the period of suspended gold convertibility, 1862-1879, and offers an alternative approach ...
[CITATION] Race, Human Capital, and Labor Markets in US History
W Whatley… - forthcoming in George Grantham and Mary MacKinnon, …, 1992
[CITATION] Historical Statistics of the United States, Earliest Times to the Present: Millennial Edition
MR Haines, SB Carter, SS Gartner, AL Olmstead… - 2006 - Cambridge University Press
[CITATION] The Political Economy of the South
G Wright - 1978 - New York: WW Norton
G Wright - The Business History Review, 1984 - JSTOR
MINERS, MILLHANDS, AND MOUNTAINEERS: INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE
APPALACHIAN SOUTH, 1880-1930. By Ronald D. Eller.(Knoxville: University of Tennessee
Press, 1982 xxvi+ 272 pp. $23.50.) PATRONAGE AND POVERTY IN THE TOBACCO ...
G Wright - Encyclopedia of the United States in the twentieth …, 1996 - 165.83.37.17
“Our national heritage is richer than just scenic features. The realization is coming that
perhaps our greatest national heritage is nature itself, with all its complexity and its
abundance of life, which, when combined with great scenic beauty as it is in the national ...
[CITATION] Early Twentieth Century Productivity Growth Dynamics
PA David… - Artículo presentado en la Economic History Society …, 1999
[CITATION] 2006
SB Carter, SS Gartner, MR Haines, AL Olmstead… - Historical Statistics of the United …
G Wright - Explorations in Economic History, 2001 - econ.ubc.ca
One Kind of Freedom is a landmark work in American economic history, a pioneering
application of economic concepts and quantitative methods to a subject of enduring
significance to our field:“The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.” As Roger ...
G Wright - Working Papers, 1997 - ideas.repec.org
December 1997< p> With specific reference to the American surge into world economic
leadership in the decades bracketing the turn of the twentieth century, the paper advances
two propositions: First, that American technological progress was a network phenomenon, ...
K Clay… - See Ostrom, Cole, 2010 - heinz.cmu.edu
This paper argues that the discovery of gold in California and a federal policy that gave all of
the rents in minerals on federal land to private parties led to two important, and closely
related, outcomes. The first outcome was the development of a private-order property ...
[CITATION] oResource $ Based Growth Past and Present. pin Daniel Lederman and William F. Maloney
G Wright… - 2007 - Natural Resources: Neither Curse …
[CITATION] Public pressure stops water privatisation
G Wright - The Peak, 2001
[CITATION] 'Economic Democracy'and the Concentration of Agricultural Wealth in the Cotton South
G Wright - Agricultural History
[CITATION] Black Labor in the American Economy Since Emancipation: What Are the Legacies of History?"
WC Whatley… - The Wealth of Races: The Present Value of Benefits …, 1990
[CITATION] RGetting Started in the Auto Industry: Black Workers at the Ford Motor Company
W Whatley, G Wright… - 1918
[CITATION] Slavery and Commerce in the Colonial Era
G Wright - Lecture Notes. Stanford University, 1997
[CITATION] Economics of Slavery
G Wright - Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery
G Wright - Working Papers, 2003 - time.dufe.edu.cn
1 Economics and economic history are usually the neglected step-children at sessions on
Civil Rights history. This neglect is unfortunate, because expanding economic opportunity
was an important motivation for the Civil Rights movement from its earliest days. And the ...
[CITATION] oThe Myth of the Resource Curse. p Challenge
G Wright… - March $ April, 2004
[CITATION] Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition
G Wright - New
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