Human capital and institutions :  a long- run view / 
edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2009. 
 - ix, 342 p. :  ill. map. forms.  ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Part I: Health and living standards; Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel --- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel --- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer --- Part.II: Institutions and schooling; The evolution of schooling in the Americas, 1800-1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff --- Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz --- The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800-1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein --- Part III: Human capital outliers;  Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen ---  An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin ---- Part IV : Constrainst in labor and financial markets; Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld --- Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521769587 (hardback) 0521769582 (hardback) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009020208 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Human capital.<br/>Economic development.<br/>Business and education.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD 4904.7  / H918 2009