a long- run view Eltis, David 1940- Lewis, Frank 1947- Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee. text bibliography nyu New York Cambridge University Press 2009 monographic eng

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ix, 342 p. : ill. map. forms. ; 24 cm. 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. edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Includes bibliographical references and index. Human capital Economic development Business and education HD 4904.7 H918 2009 9780521769587 (hardback) 0521769582 (hardback) 2009020208 DLC 090521 20230410115416.0 113400