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[CITATION] A new economic view of American history: from colonial times to 1940

J Atack, P Passell… - 1994 - getcited.org
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“Location, location, location!” The price gradient for vacant urban land: New York, 1835 to 1900

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J Atack… - The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 1998 - Springer
We preview new archival evidence on the price of vacant land in New York City between
1835 and 1900. Before the Civil War, the price of land per square foot fell steeply with
distance from New York's City Hall located in the central business district (CBD). After the ...
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The regional diffusion and adoption of the steam engine in American manufacturing

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J Atack, F Bateman… - The Journal of Economic …, 1980 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract In spite of the importance accorded the steam engine during nineteenth-century
industrialization, little is known about its rate of diffusion and the determinants thereof in the
United States. The primary purpose of this paper is to enhance our knowledge about the ...
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Egalitarianism, inequality, and age: The rural North in 1860

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J Atack… - Journal of Economic History, 1981 - Cambridge Univ Press
Little is known about the distribution of wealth in the allegedly egalitarian society of the rural
North on the eve of the Civil War. This paper investigates the role of the age structure of the
heads of household and a life-cycle pattern of accumulation in determining the wealth ...
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[CITATION] Industrial structure and the emergence of the modern industrial corporation

J Atack - Explorations in Economic History, 1985 - ideas.repec.org
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How Long was the Workday in 1880?

J Atack… - 1990 - nber.org
We know remarkably little about the length of the working day before the 1880s. In this
paper, we summarize what is known about the trend in the length of the workday in
American manufacturing industry from 1830 to 1890. We than develop estimates of the ...
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The" Egalitarian Ideal" and the Distribution of Wealth in the Northern Agricultural Community: A Backward Look

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J Atack… - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1981 - JSTOR
This paper contributes new evidence on the wealth distribution in the rural North on the eve
of the Civil War,'evidence which shows a greater degree of egalitarianism among a large
segment of the population than have other studies. We argue that the wealth distribution in ...
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[CITATION] The farm, the farmer and the market

J Atack, F Bateman… - The Cambridge Economic History of the United …, 2000
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[CITATION] Returns to scale in antebellum United States manufacturing

J Atack - Explorations in Economic History, 1977 - econpapers.repec.org
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Returns to scale in antebellum United States manufacturing. Jeremy Atack. Explorations
in Economic History, 1977, vol. 14, issue 4, pages 337-359. ...
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[CITATION] Economies of Scale and Efficiency Gains in the Rise of the Factory in America, 1820–1900

J Atack - Quantity and quiddity: essays in US …, 1987 - Middletown CT: Wesleyan University …
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Tenants and Yeomen in the Nineteenth Century

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J Atack - Agricultural History, 1988 - JSTOR
A widely-held belief in American agricultural history has been that anyone who wanted land
in the nineteenth century could have it courtesy of the benevolent and enlightened public
land policy.'Under such conditions tenant farming was thought unlikely. It was therefore ...
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Skill intensity and rising wage dispersion in nineteenth-century American manufacturing

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J Atack, F Bateman… - Journal of Economic …, 2004 - Cambridge Univ Press
We study the correlates of the monthly establishment wage—the average monthly wage at
the establishment level—and changes in wage dispersion between plants using a model of
manufacturing developed by Goldin and Katz and data from manuscript censuses of ...
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Nineteenth-Century US Industrial Development through the Eyes of the Census of Manufactures a New Resource for Historical Research

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J Atack… - … Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and …, 1999 - Heldref Publications
Department of Economics University of Georgia he purpose of this article is threefold. First, it
alerts the profession to the availability of new machine-T readable census samples on US
manufacturing during the second half of the nineteenth century. Second, it addresses ...
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The agricultural ladder revisited: a new look at an old question with some data for 1860

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J Atack - Agricultural history, 1989 - JSTOR
Generations of agricultural historians have relied upon the metaphor of the agricultural
ladder to describe social and economic mobility within the farm economy. This metaphor
likens the hierarchical status of agriculturalists to the rungs of a ladder with the agricultural ...
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Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth-Century United States Manufacturing and the Form of the Production Function

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J Atack - The Journal of Economic History, 1978 - JSTOR
Many reasons have been suggested for the South's failure during the nineteenth century to
develop an industrial sector comparable in scale and scope to that in the northeastern
states, but few explanations have been more pervasive than the argument that deficient ...
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Productivity in Manufacturing and the Length of the Working Day: Evidence from the 1880 Census of Manufactures

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J Atack, F Bateman… - Explorations in Economic History, 2003 - Elsevier
Using micro-level data from the 1880 Census of Manufacturing, we estimate the elasticity of
annual output with respect to the length of the working day. Holding labor and capital inputs
constant and controlling for days of operation per month and months per year, this ...
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Firm size and industrial structure in the United States during the nineteenth century

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J Atack - The Journal of Economic History, 1986 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract This paper investigates the impact of the emergence of large-scale enterprises on
industrial structure in America in the mid-nineteenth century and concludes that their impact
was ambiguous. In cottons and irons, average scale increased dramatically, but inequality ...
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Part-year operation in nineteenth-century American manufacturing: evidence from the 1870 and 1880 censuses

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J Atack, F Bateman… - The Journal of Economic …, 2002 - Cambridge Univ Press
We examine the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late nineteenth
century using unpublished data from the manuscripts of the 1870 and 1880 censuses of
manufactures. These are the earliest comprehensive estimates available on this topic. ...
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Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850–1860

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J Atack, F Bateman, M Haines… - Social Science History, 2010 - Duke Univ Press
Abstract Using a newly developed geographic information system transportation database,
we study the impact of gaining access to rail transportation on changes in population density
and the rate of urbanization between 1850 and 1860 in the American Midwest. ...
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[CITATION] Fact in fiction? The relative costs of steam and water power: a simulation approach

J Atack - Explorations in Economic History, 1979 - ideas.repec.org
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Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing

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J Atack, F Bateman… - Explorations in Economic History, 2008 - Elsevier
We use establishment-level data from the 1850–1880 censuses of manufacturing to study
the relationships among establishment size, steam power use, and labor productivity. Large
establishments, measured here by employment, were much more likely to use steam ...
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Farm and Farm-Making Costs Revisited

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J Atack - Agricultural History, 1982 - JSTOR
In a well-known article, Clarence Danhof raised serious doubts about the economic validity
of the" safety valve" doctrine. l After an extensive survey of the nineteenth-century literature
on farm-making costs, he estimated that the would-be farmer purchasing a 40-acre farm ...
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[CITATION] The profitability of northern agriculture in 1860 [USA]

F Bateman… - Research in economic history, 1979 - agris.fao.org
Go to AGRIS search. Research in economic history (1979). The
profitability of northern agriculture in 1860 [USA ...
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[CITATION] Northern agriculture and the westward movement

J Atack, F Bateman… - The Cambridge Economic History of the United …, 2000
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Business activity and the Boston stock market, 1835-1869

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J Atack… - 1997 - nber.org
This paper examines the performance of the Boston stock market, the nation's premier
market for industrials, between 1835 and 1869, developing new indexes of price
performance, dividend yields and total holding period returns for bank stocks and ...
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Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880

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J Atack, F Bateman… - 2000 - nber.org
We use data from the manuscript censuses of manufacturing for 1850, 1860, 1870, and
1880 to study the dispersion of average monthly wages across establishments. We find a
marked increased in wage inequality over the period, an increase that cannot be ...
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match

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J Atack, F Bateman… - Historical Methods: A Journal …, 1992 - Taylor & Francis
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ross-sectional studies cannot illuminate the
process C of economic and social change. Even taking a cross-section of the same
population or locale at different times provides only a partial answer. The greatest gains ...
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[CITATION] Agricultural and demographic records of 21,118 rural households selected from the 1860 manuscript censuses

F Bateman, JD Foust… - 1989 - Inter-university Consortium for …
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Self-Sufficiency and the Marketable Surplus in the Rural North, 1860

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J Atack… - Agricultural History, 1984 - JSTOR
Urbanization and the expanding transportation system in the United States during the
nineteenth century created new market opportunities for agriculture. Farmers responded by
producing surpluses beyond the needs of the farm and family to sell or barter in the ...
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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

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J Atack, MR Haines… - 2008 - nber.org
Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from
artisan shop to factory production. At the same time United States experienced a"
transportation revolution", a key component of which was the building of extensive railroad ...
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Capital deepening and the rise of the factory: the American experience during the nineteenth century1

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J Atack, F Bateman… - The Economic History Review, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
ATACK, J., BATEMAN, F. and MARGO, RA (2005), Capital deepening and the rise of the
factory: the American experience during the nineteenth century. The Economic History
Review, 58: 586–595. doi: 10.1111/j. 1468-0289.2005. 00314. x
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[CITATION] The evolution of regional economic differences within Illinois, 1818-1850

J Atack - Diversity, conflict, and state politics, 1989
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[CITATION] A New Economic View of American History

P Passell… - 1994 - WW Norton, New York
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Capital deepening in American manufacturing, 1850-1880

J Atack, F Bateman… - 2003 - nber.org
We use establishment-level data to study capital deepening--increases in the capital-output
ratio--in American manufacturing from 1850 to 1880. In nominal terms, the aggregate capital-
output ratio in our samples rose by 30 percent from 1850 to 1880. Growth in real terms ...
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[CITATION] Yankee Farming and Settlement in the Old Northwest: A Comparative Analysis

J Atack… - Essays on the Economy of the Old Northwest (Athens, …, 1987
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Risk, the rate of return and the pattern of investment in nineteenth century American manufacturing

J Atack, F Bateman… - Southern Economic Journal, 1982 - JSTOR
The smooth functioning of capital markets in the United States today is generally taken for
granted. Some scholars have suggested that they did even for a much earlier era. Yet no
one seems surprised to find that markets do not work efficiently in contemporary ...
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[CITATION] Preliminary Data on the Spread of Organizational Forms Among American Manufacturing Firms in the Nineteenth Century

J Atack… - Unpublished paper, 1995
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[CITATION] Mid-Nineteenth Century Crop Yields and Labor Productivity Growth in American Agriculture: A New Look at Parker and Klein

J Atack… - Research in Economic History: Technique, Spirit and …, 1984
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Whom Did Protective Legislation Protect? Evidence from 1880

J Atack… - 1991 - nber.org
After sketching various ways in which economic issues influenced the political realignment
of the 1850s, the paper concentrates on five questions:(1) the timing of the economic issues
and the disjunctions in economic developments across regions and classes;(2) the size of ...
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[CITATION] Yeoman Farming: Antebellum America's Other 'Peculiar Institution.'

J Atack… - Agriculture and National Development (Ames, 1990)
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" Location, Location, Location!" The Market for Vacant Urban Land: New York 1835-1900

J Atack… - 1996 - nber.org
We present new archival evidence on the price of vacant land in New York City between
1835 and 1900. Before the Civil War, the price of land per square foot fell steeply with
distance from New York's City Hall located in the central business district. After the Civil ...
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[CITATION] Steel rails and American railroads, 1867-1880

J Atack… - Explorations in Economic History, 1982 - econpapers.repec.org
By Jeremy Atack and Jan K. Brueckner; Steel rails and American railroads, 1867-1880.
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The Profitability of Steamboating on Western Rivers: 1850

J Atack, EF Haites, J Mak… - The Business History Review, 1975 - JSTOR
In recent years, a number of articles have appeared on various business and economic aspects
of antebellum western river steam- boating.' Nearly all have relied upon scattered, disparate
data and, occasionally, on assumed benchmarks. Recently, new data have come to light ...
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[CITATION] Rising wage dispersion across American manufacturing establishments

J Atack, F Bateman… - 2000
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Louis Brandeis, work and fatigue at the start of the twentieth century: prelude to Oregon's hours limitation law

J Atack… - 1991 - nber.org
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries there was considerable interest among
the scientific and business communities in the relationship between work, fatigue, health
and productivity. Study after study not only documented well-known relationships between ...
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[CITATION] Did the United States Industrialize Too Slowly?

J Atack… - University of Illinois/University of Georgia unpublished …, 1992
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[CITATION] An evaluation of nineteenth century censuses as sources of economic statistics

J Atack, F Bateman… - Paper delivered to the Cliometrice Conference, …, 1979
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[CITATION] The origins and development of financial markets and institutions

Jeremy. Atack… - Cambridge University Press
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The Impact of Access to Rail Transportation on Agricultural Improvement: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

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J Atack… - Journal of Transport and Land Use, 2011 - jtlu.org
Abstract During the 1850s, land in US farms increased by more than a third—100 million
acres—and almost 50 million acres, an area almost equal to that of the states of Indiana and
Ohio combined, were converted from their raw, natural state into productive farmland. The ...
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[CITATION] A New View of American History from Colonial Times to 1940

J Atack… - 1994 - New York: Norton
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The measurement and trend of inequality:: An amendment to a basic revision

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J Atack… - Economics Letters, 1979 - Elsevier
Abstract A variety of revisions and adjustments to our standard measures of inequality have
been proposed in recent years. This note corrects a serious error in that work which could
reverse conclusions in instances of great inequality.
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[CITATION] Rates of Return on Industrial Investment in the Nineteenth Century United States

J Atack… - Manuscript, Department of Economics, Vanderbilt …, 2000
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Marketable Farm Surpluses: Northeastern and Midwestern United States, 1859 and 1860

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J Atack… - Social Science History, 1984 - JSTOR
This article examines the extent of the potential market surplus by geographic region in the
northern United States from Vermont to Minnesota on the eve of the Civil War. Our interest is
in measuring the extensiveness and pervasiveness of market commitment, how ...
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[CITATION] Forthcoming.“Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing,”

J Atack, F Bateman… - Journal of Economic History
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[CITATION] A new economic history of American history

J Atack… - 1994 - New York, WW Norton
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[PDF] Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence in the Weaving of Business and Economic History: Western River Steamboats and the Transportation Revolution …

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J Atack - Business and Economic History, 1999 - h-net.org
This paper breaks somewhat with the tradition of the recent past by limiting (if not
eliminating) autobiographical detail. Some particulars, however, are essential to the story in
that they show what drew me into this profession and set the broad themes for my ...
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[CITATION] How Long Did People Work in 1880?

J Atack… - Economic History Association meetings, 1989
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Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-1870

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J Atack, M Haines… - Economic Evolution and …, 2011 - books.google.com
IN THE EARLY YEARS of the nineteenth century, manufacturing production in the United
States took place in artisan shops where a highly skilled worker—the artisan—crafted a
good from start to finish, perhaps with the help of an assistant or two. Artisans used ...
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[CITATION] The'Egalitarian Ideal'and the Distribution of Wealth in the Northern Agricultural Community

J Atack, F Bateman… - 1978 - College of Commerce and Business …
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A nineteenth-century resource for agricultural history research in the twenty-first century

J Atack - Agricultural history, 2004 - JSTOR
The paper announces the imminent availability of a major extension of the well-known
Bateman-Foust sample. This new resource will contain linked agricultural and population
census data between 1850 and 1880 for thousands of individuals in an expanded group ...
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The origins and development of financial markets and institutions: from the seventeenth century to the present

J Atack… - Recherche, 2010 - lavoisier.fr
Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which
the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable
to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be ...
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[CITATION] State Samples from the 1880 Census of Manufacturing

J Atack, F Bateman… - 1990 - Inter-university Consortium for …
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[CITATION] National Samples from the Census of Manufacturing, 1850, 1860, and 1870

J Atack, F Bateman… - 2004 - ICPSR04048, Urbana, IL: University …
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Economies of Scale in Western River Steamboating: A Comment

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J Atack - The Journal of Economic History, 1978 - JSTOR
In a recent article, Haites and Mak'have provided significant and apparently conclusive
evidence concerning the absence of scale economies in antebellum western river
steamboating. By demonstrating that constant returns to scale prevailed they have ...
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Capital Deepening in United States Manufacturing, 1850-1880

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J Atack, F Bateman… - 2003 - papers.ssrn.com
deepening-increases in the capital-output ratio-in US manufacturing from 1850 to 1880. In
both nominal and real terms, the aggregate capital-output ratio rose substantially over the
period. Capital deepening is shown to be especially important in the larger firms and was ...
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[CITATION] Thomas Weiss. 1980.“The Regional Diffusion and Adoption of the Steam Engine in American Manufacturing,”

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[CITATION] A new economic view of American history

A Jeremy… - 1994 - New
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Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

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J Atack… - 2009 - nber.org
During the 1850s, land in US farms surged by more than 100 million acres while almost 50
million acres of land were transformed from their raw, natural state into productive farmland.
The time and expense of transforming this land into a productive resource represented a ...
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[CITATION] Capital Deepening in United States Manufacturing

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[CITATION] Whom did Protectionist Legislation Protect? Evidence from 1880

J Atack… - 1991 - National Bureau of Economic …
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[CITATION] Quantity and quiddity: essays in US economic history:[papers presented at a symposium in honor of Stanley Lebergott, Mar. 28th and 29th, 1985]

P Kilby… - 1987 - Wesleyan University Press
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[CITATION] 1 Financial innovations and crises: The view backwards from Northern Rock

J Atack - The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and …
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Irregular production and time-out-of-work in American manufacturing industry in 1870 and 1880: some preliminary estimates

J Atack… - 1995 - nber.org
This paper makes use of hitherto untabulated data from the censuses of manufacturing for
1870 and 1880 to investigate the extent to which firms operated at less than their full
capacity year round in these census years and thus provides some evidence of the extent ...
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Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development--An appreciation and research agenda

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J Atack, P Coclanis… - Explorations in Economic History, 2009 - Elsevier
In their new book, Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural
Development (Cambridge, 2008), Olmstead and Rhode offer a radically new interpretation
of American agricultural development from the late 18th to early 20th century. While earlier ...
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A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. 2: Steam Power. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. Pp. xxii, 732. …

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J Atack - The Journal of Economic History, 1987 - Cambridge Univ Press
As Hunter worked on steam power the theme of water and steam locked in bitter competition
emerged, and just when steam seemed destined to win, thanks to the mechanical genius of
George H. Corliss, water power staged a dramatic comeback with the widespread ...
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[PDF] The Transportation Revolution Revisited: Towards a New Mapping of America's Transportation Network in the 19th Century

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J Atack, F Bateman… - aida.econ.yale.edu
Abstract This preliminary paper develops a strategy for mapping the 19th century expansion
of the transportation network in the United States during the nineteenth century using GIS. It
focuses in particular on railroads and takes a critical look at work assessing their ...
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Revolution in the Third World. By Gerard Chaliand. Hassocks, Sussex: The Harves-ter Press, 1977. Pp. xxii, 195, $11.95.

J ATACK - Cambridge Univ Press
This book contains the reflections of a-journalist and political scientist on. the revolutionary
regimes that have appeared since the Second World War. Focussing more on the political
than the economic aspects of contemporary history, it provides us with the ruminations of ...

[CITATION] Business and economic history: papers presented at the thirty-second annual meeting of the Business History Conference, March 13-15, 1986

J Atack - 1986 - Bureau of Economic and Business …
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[CITATION] National Sample from the 1880 Census of Manufacturing

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Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas. By Randolph B. Campbell and Richard G. Lowe. College Station and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. Pp. iv,. 183. …

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[CITATION] Business and Economic History: Papers Presented at the Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of the Business History Conference, May 5-7, 1981

J Atack… - 1981 - Bureau of Economic and Business …
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The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson· Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. …

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J Atack - Business History Review, 1998 - Cambridge Univ Press
Jeremy Atack is chair and professor of economics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and a
Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He relies heavily upon federal manuscript census data in his work and ...

[CITATION] Optimal Plant Size and Industrial Structure Before the Modern Industrial Corporation

A Jeremy… - 1983 - College of Commerce and Business …
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The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Relationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniques. By Amos J …

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J Atack - The Journal of Economic History, 1984 - Cambridge Univ Press
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Part-Year Operation in 19th Century American Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 Censuses

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J Atack, F Bateman… - 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: Using unpublished data contained in samples from the manuscripts of the 1870
and 1880 censuses of manufactures the earliest comprehensive estimates available this
study examines the extent and correlates of part-year manufacturing during the late 19th ...
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[CITATION] Liberty Party

P Van Horn, J Atack, P Passell… - The political Lincoln: an …, 2008 - CQ Press
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[CITATION] The Impact of Railroads on School Enrollment in Nineteenth Century America

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[PDF] PART-YEAR OPERATION IN NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN MANUFACTURING

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J Atack, F Bateman, RA Margo, W Collins, L Craig… - 2001 - vanderbilt.edu
ABSTRACT Using unpublished data contained in samples from the manuscripts of the 1870
and 1880 censuses of manufactures, we examine the extent and correlates of part-year
manufacturing during the late nineteenth century. These data are the earliest ...
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Name Index Abemathy, William J., 37, 43, 62-63 Adler, Cyrus, 207 Alchian, Armen A., 23
Allen, Frederick L., 207 Andrews, Kenneth, 7nl Aoki, Masahiko, 64, 120 Appleton, Nathan, 166
Armitage, Howard M., 56 Arnold, HL, 73nl0 Atack, Jeremy, 229 Atkinson, Anthony A., 56 ...
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The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions

J Atack… - Cambridge Books, 2009 - econpapers.repec.org
Collectively, mankind has never had it so good despite periodic economic crises of which
the current sub-prime crisis is merely the latest example. Much of this success is attributable
to the increasing efficiency of the world's financial institutions as finance has proved to be ...
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The Editors and the Association wish to thank the following individuals who were chairs or discussants at the 1993 Economic History Association meetings. Their …

J Atack, I Berend, K Biddick, A Carlos, G Clark… - Cambridge Univ Press
The Editors and the Association wish to thank the following individuals who were chairs or discussants
at the 1993 Economic History Association meetings. Their comments helped the authors prepare
their final drafts and provided invaluable advice to the Editors.

[CITATION] Risk, the rate of return and the pattern of investment in nineteenth century American industrialization/BEBR No. 575

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J Atack, F Bateman… - 1979 - ideals.illinois.edu
Summary Economic theory predicts that market forces under conditions of uncertainty will
work to equalize risk-adjusted rates of return across all activities by directing additional
Investment towards those activities with excess returns per unit of risk and away fron those ...
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[CITATION] State Samples from the Census of Manufacturing: 1850, 1860, and 1870

F Bateman, TJ Weiss, J Atack… - 2004 - Inter-university Consortium for …
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Ahluwalia, Montek, 89 Allen, Michael P., 5, 321;" The Per-petuation of Wealth: A Simulation Model," 139-58

TL Anderson, J Atack, E Baker… - … the distribution and …, 1980 - books.google.com
Author Index Ahluwalia, Montek, 89 Allen, Michael P., 5, 321;" The Per- petuation of Wealth: A
Simulation Model," 139-58 Anderson, Terry L., 80, 89, 93 Ando, A., 161, 184, 212, 221, 305
Atack, Jeremy, 107, 137 Atkinson, AB, 12, 89, 159, 162, 182, 187, 221 Baker, Elizabeth, ...
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Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, 1700–1960. By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. New York: Cambridge …

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J Atack - The Journal of Economic History, 2009 - Cambridge Univ Press
Every once in a while, a book comes along that changes the way in which a discipline thinks
about a topic. Creating Abundance is one such book. In it, Alan Olmstead and Paul Rhode
(Professors of Economics at the University of California, Davis and the University of ...
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[CITATION] A new economic view of american history 2e (paperback)

J ATACK - Recherche, 1994 - lavoisier.fr
Livre: A new economic view of american history 2e (paperback) ATACK Jeremy.
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[CITATION] Optimal plant size and industrial structure before the modern industrial corporation/BEBR No. 935

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A Jeremy - 1983 - ideals.illinois.edu
Abstract The transition from small, seasonal businesses meeting local needs to the large
scale corporation serving a national market in America took. less than a hundred years from
1840 to 1920. Alfred Chandler explains the change as a response to high-speed, ...
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Abbott, Michael, 137 Achenbaum, Andrew W., 11, 26, 174, 183n4 Anderson, Patricia, 19 Ashenfelter, Orley, 137

J Atack, DJP Barker, ML Barron… - The Evolution of …, 2000 - books.google.com
Name Index Abbott, Michael, 137 Achenbaum, Andrew W., 11, 26, 174, 183n4 Anderson,
Patricia, 19 Ashenfelter, Orley, 137 Atack, Jeremy, 93 Barker, DJP, 66, 82, 192 Barron, ML, 94
Bartel, Ann, 60, 80 Bateman, Fred, 93 Bauder, Ward W., 96 Becker, Gary S., 139 Beller, ...
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EDITORS'REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2004

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J Atack… - The Journal of Economic History, 2005 - Cambridge Univ Press
... Jeremy Atack and Knick Harley, ... EDITORS' REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2004. Jeremy Atack and
Knick Harley (2005) The Journal of Economic History, Volume 65, Issue 01, March 2005 pp
257-259 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022050705210094. ...
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[CITATION] Appreciation is extended to the following referees for their comments and reviews over the past two years in support of the NAFE and the JFE.

G Albrecht, JA Ankrom, J Atack, RC Baesemann… - Journal of Forensic …, 1999

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