Books

NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development (publisher series)

 

This series contains 16 books.


  1. Fatal Years (1991)

    Child Mortality in Late Nineteenth Century America

    by Samuel H. Preston, Michael R. Haines

  2. The Evolution of Retirement (1998)

    An American Economic History, 1880-1990

    by Dora L. Costa

  3. Understanding the Gender Gap (1990)

    An Economic History of American Women

    by Claudia Dale Goldin

  4. In Pursuit of Leviathan (1997)

    Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906

    by Lance Edwin Davis

  5. Golden Fetters (1992)

    The Gold Standard and the Great Depression, 1919-1939

    by Barry J. Eichengreen

  6. Insider Lending

    Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic Development in Industrial New England

    by Naomi R. Lamoreaux

  7. Straining at the Anchor (2001)

    The Argentine Currency Board and the Search for Macroeconomic Stability, 1880-1935

    by Gerardo Della Paolera, Alan M. Taylor

  8. The Federal Civil Service System and the Problem of Bureaucracy (1994)

    The Economics and Politics of Institutional Change

    by Ronald N. Johnson, Gary D. Libecap

  9. The Democratization of Invention (2005)

    Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920

    by B. Zorina Khan

  10. Yankeys Now

    Immigrants in the Antebellum United States, 1840-1860

    by Joseph P. Ferrie

  11. Height, Health and History (1990)

    Nutritional Status in the United Kingdom, 1750-1980

    by Roderick Floud, Kenneth W. Wachter, Annabel Gregory

  12. Heroes and Cowards (2008)

    The Social Face of War

    by Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn

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