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Subject(s)

• Economic history—Statistical methods [Browse]
• Economic history—Methodology [Browse]
• Social change—United States—History—Statistical methods [Browse]
• United States—Economic conditions—Statistical methods [Browse]

Related name

• Rosenbloom, Joshua L. [Browse]

Series

• Routledge explorations in economic history ; 40. [More in this series]
• Routledge explorations in economic history ; 40 [More in this series]

Summary note

These essays use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical issues and suggesting entirely new types of evidence outside conventional archives.

Notes

Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Editor's introduction: The good of counting; 2 An economic history of bastardy in England and Wales; 3 Epidemics, demonstration effects, and investment in sanitation capital by U.S. cities in the early twentieth century; 4 Profitability, firm size, and business organization in nineteenth-century U.S. manufacturing; 5 Railroads and local economic development: The United States in the 1850s; 6 Did refrigeration kill the hog–corn cycle?
• 7 Measuring the intensity of state labor regulation during the Progressive Era8 Reexamining the distribution of wealth in 1870; The publications of Thomas J. Weiss; Index;

Other title(s)

Good of counting

ISBN

• 1-135-97785-2
• 0-429-24025-2
• 1-281-25989-6
• 9786611259891
• 0-203-92813-X

OCLC

476130196

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