02272cam a2200325 a 4500 113400 20230410115416.0 090521s2009 nyuabk b 001 0 eng 15746584 acquire 2 shelf copies policy default lcc bk 2009020208 9780521769587 (hardback) 0521769582 (hardback) (OCoLC)ocn349248332 DLC DLC YDX BTCTA YDXCP CDX BWX DLC HD 4904.7 H918 2009 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. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Human capital. Economic development. Business and education. Eltis, David, 1940- Lewis, Frank, 1947- Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee. rc 40572 40572 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 1 0 HD 4904.7 H918 2009 00000106334 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 bk