UNITED States economy, ECONOMIC history, TAKINGS clause (Constitutional law)
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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 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.
WEALTH, ECONOMIC history, EQUALITY, AMERICAN Revolutionary War, 1775-1783, HISTORY
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Explores the proposition that economic equality in the United States was greater from 1776 to 1790 than in 1860. Factors contributing to the idea that the Revolutionary era was a period of economic equality.
UNITED States economy, GREAT Depression, 1929-1939, ECONOMIC history
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Investigates the nature of long-term fluctuations in the general level of activity of the United States economy over the period between the Civil War and the Great Depression. Prevalence of a stable socio-economic structure of long-term economic change during the entire period; Importance of the findings to economic historians.
Focuses on the role of the program committee in the meeting of the Economic History Association held on August 28 to 30, 1969 at the Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Subtitles of the sessions; Focus of economic history as it began in Germany and England; Discussion on the efforts to study economic forms and their evolution in history.