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Discusses paper money issues in the American colonies from 1720 to 1774. Misinterpretation of the colonial monetary policies; Overview of the political background of British monetary policies in the colonies; Controversy over colonial practices during the period.

Comments on articles about the economic history of the United States. Economic development of the country; Application of eminent domain on expropriate private property for public purposes; Stability of property rights in the country's legal order.

Comments on several articles about the economic development of the United States. Factors that changed income distribution in the country; Arguments on the growth of demand from capital-intensive subsectors.

Discusses the involvement of the business sector in agrarian movement in the United States from 1879 to 1920. Issue on monopoly and unregulated power of the railroads in the 19th century.

Discusses the factors which contributed to the demand for money in small denominations in the United States during the nineteenth century. Types of money in small denominations; Relation between inflation and the appearance of small notes; Argument against small notes which was presented by Adam Smith in his book `Wealth of Nations'; Public policy with respect to issues of small notes.

Investigates the relationship between the increase in average productivity and the accelerated application of scientific information in the manufacturing industry in the United States in the 1920s. Increase efficiency of production facilities; Transformation in industrial investment; Opportunities for mass-production innovations.

Compares the monthly interest rate series established by economists Erastus Bigelow and Lance E. Davis in the United States during the 19th century. Description of Bigelow's series; Significance of the series created by Davis.

Comments on several studies regarding economic history during the 19th century. Guidelines for selecting historical topics; Contribution of a study on real wages in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to research on national income before 1840.

Presents a study which tested Douglass C. North's common sense generalization on the differential earnings of large and small-scale land speculators in Iowa. Focus of the study; Impact of the public land disposal system on income distribution in the United States.

Investigates the economic impact of Civil War in the U.S. Epochal changes in capital formation shares and capital goods' prices; Increase in gross saving rates; Factors influencing the episodic behavior of the savings rate and the relative price of capital goods.

Presents information on productivity and income distribution in the southern United States after the Civil War.

Comments on an article about the theory of tariff formation applied to the 19th century United States. Concept of tariff development; Significance of the article to the field of economic study.

Comments on an article on the effectiveness of tariff protection of the antebellum cotton textile industry in the United States. Application of the knowing by doing principle to the measured input efficiency growth of an aggregation of production units.

Features a study on the factors which caused the economic retardation of the United States during the late 19th century. Application of the neoclassical analysis; Details of consumer prices; Discussion on interest rates; Occurrence of economic depression in the country.

Examines the determinants of labor productivity growth in the cotton textile industry of the United States in the nineteenth century. Key conveyance of nineteenth century industrialization in the country.

Examines the formation of debt peonage in the South after the Civil War in the United States. Reason for the failure of Southerners to diversify the region's economy.

Investigates the standard of living of immigrants in the United States (U.S.) in 1909. Conclusion of a related report presented by the Immigration Commission to the Congress on December 5, 1910; Legislation on immigration recommended by the commission; Criticism on the report.

Examines the impact of child-labor legislation on the presence of children in the United States labor force, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Age provisions of child-labor legislation; Implications of the legislation.

Argues that intuition is about half right regarding the links among land scarcity, farm land rents, population growth and economic growth in the United States (U.S.). Theory of economist Alfred Marshall on the intuition that higher growth leads to land scarcity; Determinants of overall land rents; Effects of economic growth and population growth on farm and residence land rents; Trends in land scarcity in the U.S.

Examines the cost-of-living differences among the various regions of the U.S. during a 30-year interval of the 19th century. Impact of the market development on the differences; Determinants of regional income and wages; Issues pertaining to the economic development.

Examines the role of the Second Bank of the United States in establishing and maintaining a uniform national currency in the 1820s. Status of the Second Bank during the early 19th century; Influence on the American economy.

Examines the termination of the Long Drive in 1885 in the United States (U.S.). Significance of the cattle drive to U.S. history; Statistics on the cattle driven from Texas to Kansas by cowboys and drovers.

Discusses the controversy over the economic history of slavery in the United States. Factor which contributed to the demise of slavery; Profits of the slave plantation.

Examines the impact of the Coinage Act of February 21, 1853 on bimetallism in the United States under the administration of former President Harry Johnson. Background on de facto bimetallism; Factor which contributed to the longevity of bimetallism.

Provides information on the cotton industry in the southern region of the United States. Overproduction in the industry; Details of crop diversification; Brief background on the agriculture sector.

Analyzes the 1933 banking crisis in the United States. Reasons for the economic historians' lack of interest to discuss the banking crisis; Information on the bank suspension rates experienced by the country in the 1930s.

Examines the relationship between tariff policy and the technical characteristics of production in the development of manufacturing industries in the ante-bellum era of the United States. Information on the significance of learning functions in raising the production efficiency of the industries; Implication of the learning effects on the young industries.

Offers a look at the historical evidence of the life of Scottish migrant Henry Burden to understand the development of manufacturing technology in the United States. How Burden assimilated into the American industrial community; Discussion on the attempt to introduce into the Springfield Armory the processes of rolling barrel scalps and welding barrels by rolling; Focus on the shift in Burden's career.

Examines literature on the role of the United States governments in the promotion of canals and railroads. Focus of an article by Robert A. Lively; Trends which appeared in the writing of economic history; Changes in substance or emphasis that may be required on the basis of criticisms made.

Focuses on the growth and performance of large-scale organization in the United States (U.S.). Types of formal organizations; Characteristics of the first period of organizational growth in the U.S.

Focuses on the financial crisis in Great Britain from 1940 to 1941. Factors that contribute to the delayed financial assistance from the United States (U.S.); Distrust of the U.S. about anything European; Legislation which prevented the U.S. from arranging credit for Great Britain.

Presents a response to a commentary raised regarding the measurement of efficiency of dairy farming in the United States from 1850 to 1910. Explanation on average yield as a measure of efficiency; View on the formulation of an index of dairy productivity; Comment on labor productivity data.

Focuses on a study which examined vertical integration in a cross section of manufacturing firms in the United States from 1899 to 1948. Methodology; Nature of the occurrence of such an integration in the period after mergers and before conglomerates.

Presents information on income distribution in the United States from 1866 to 1965. Comparison of the income tax distributions from the Civil War period with those arising from the income tax after 1912; Details on the abortive income tax of 1894.

Focuses on the estimation of labor inputs and productivity in dairy production in the United States from 1850 to 1910. Factors which affected the increase in yields and labor productivity in field crops; Importance of dairy production in the farm economy of the country.

Provides information on the Canadian-American Reciprocity Treaty which was ratified in February 1855. Discussion on free trade; Commercial relations of Canada and the United States.

Focuses on the statistical record of wage rates in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1785 to 1830. How the data reflects problems of differential between skilled and unskilled labor during the period.

Computes the average milk yields in dairy agriculture in the United States and analyzes the sources of changes in these yields between 1850 and 1910. Productivity changes in wheat, corn and oats during the period; Factors to be accounted for productivity growth; Mechanical improvements in dairying before 1900.

Discusses the interrelationships between the international flow of liquid funds evidencing balance-of-payments disequilibrium and the monetary system of the United States from the 1830s to the Civil War. Alternative explanations of such interrelationships; Role of the domestic banking system during the period.

Presents a study on the service industries in the United States during the period 1839 through 1899. Series relating to the quantitative development of the industries; Use of value-added series in the study; Basis of an industrial distribution of gainful workers; Contribution of the service sector to the country's economy.

Examines the role of social structures and values in the economic growth of the United States. Reason for the accumulation of wealth in colonies; Explanation for the propensity of colonial societies to be materialistic.

Focuses on a study which provided statistics on urban population changes in the United States from 1775 to 1840. Contributions to urbanization made by city groups; Influences affecting urban population expansion in the years before the railroad became a dominant influence; Limitations.

Discusses the economic growth in the United States before 1840. Growth of real product; Growth of aggregate product per capita in the period between 1815 and 1860.

Examines productivity change in ocean shipping on colonial routes in the United States between 1675-1775. Freight rates that have been constructed; Problems of interpretation in using freight rates; Effects of the substantial increase in shipping productivity during the colonial period.

Comments on an article about the economic impact of nineteenth-century transportation in the United States. Factors that affected actual transfer charges; Flaw of an analysis on canal technology; Costs of railroad construction.

Examines the role of railroad and how changes in transport stimulated economic advance in the United States. Externalities associated with transport change; Details on how railroad triumphed over canal transport.

Presents an assessment of the magnitude of both public and total resources allocated to education in the United States during the last half of the nineteenth century. Aspects by which goverment contribution to educational development can be evaluated; Comparison with European public expenditures on education.

Examines the statements of the British visitors of the 1850's and the labor-scarcity explanation of American conditions in the United States (U.S.) industry. Key feature of the U.S. manufacturing industry; Groups of visitors considered.

Features a study which analyzed the regulations of the United States Federal Reserve Board and its effect on the economic depression from 1920 to 1921. Liquidity of banking institutions; Discussion on monetary policy; Cause of the decline in money supply; Status of interest and discount rates in the country.

Features a study which analyzed the government revenues, expenditures and financing in the United State from 1861 to 1875. List of expenditures and agency appropriations; Discussion on wage payments; Tax revenues posted during the period; Comparison between government assets and liabilities.