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Human capital and institutions : a long- run view / edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: ix, 342 p. : ill. map. forms. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521769587 (hardback)
  • 0521769582 (hardback)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HD 4904.7 H918 2009
Contents:
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.
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Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) HD 4904.7 H918 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000106334

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.

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