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Human capital and institutions : = a long run view /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Human capital and institutions :/ edited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.
Reminder of title:	a long run view /
remainder title:	Human Capital & Institutions
other author:	Eltis, David,
Description:	1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Human capital. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511605390
ISBN:	9780511605390 (ebook)

Human capital and institutions : = a long run view /
Human capital and institutions :a long run view /Human Capital & Institutionsedited by David Eltis, Frank D. Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff. - 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutrition in pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care; from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the factors that affected the performance of those who reached the pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key to the growth of human capital.

ISBN: 9780511605390 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

556513
Human capital.

LC Class. No.: HD4904.7 / .H8583 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 306

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