Late Nineteenth-Century American Development: A General Equilibrium History

Preface Part I. The Issues: 1. Late nineteenth-century American development: the issues 2. Counterfactual history Part II. The Framework: 3. A model of late nineteenth-century American regional growth 4. American economic history rewritten: fact or fiction? Part III. The Lessons of History: 5. The Great Depression, 1870-96 6. Financial intermediation, capital immobilities, and economic growth 7. Farmers' discontent and agricultural performance: facts, issues and an agenda 8. Elements of agricultural performance: land expansion and productivity growth 9. Transportation and American development during the Gilded Age: 1870-90 10. Exports, world markets and American development 11. Immigration and American growth Part IV. The Facts of History: Appendix A: parameter estimation Appendix B: the simulation in detail Appendix C: data underlying the analysis of American immigration Notes Bibliography Index.