New economic history : selected readings

INTRODUCTION - PART ONE : THE MEASUREMENT OF ECONOMIC GROWTH - Gorss national product in the United State 1834-1909 / R.E.Gallman -- New Light on a statistcal dark age : U.S. real product growth before 1840 / P.A.David - PART TWO : THE EFFECT OF ABUNDANT LAND ON AGRICULTURE - An econometric study of cotton production and trade 1830-1860 G,Wright -- Productivity growth in grain production in the United States 1840-60 and 1900-10 / W.N.Parker, J.L.Klein - PART THREE : THE EFFECT OF ABUNDANT LAND ON INDUSTRY -- Labor scarcity and the problem of American Industrial efficiency in the 1850's / P.Temin -- The specification problem in economic history / R.W.Fogel -- Labor scarcity in America / P.Termin - PART FOUR : RAILROADS AND THEIR SOICAL SAVINGS - A quantitavie approach the study of railroads in american economic growth : a report of some preliminary / R.W.Fogel -- Railroads as an analogy to the space effort : some economic aspects / R.W.Fogel -- Transport innovation and economic growth : professor Fogel on and of the rails / P.A.David - PART FIVE : BANKING AND BUSINESS CYCLES - The economic consequences of the bank war / P.Temin -- The pánic of 1907 and banking reform in its wake / M.Friedman, A.J.Schwartz - PART SIX : THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF SLAVERY - The economics of slavery in the antebellum south / A.H.Conrad, J.R.Meyer -- The effects of slavery upon the southern economy : a review of the recent debate / S.L.Engreman -- Further reading