The Cambridge Economic History of the United States

Volume III surveys the economic history of the United States and Canada during the twentieth century.

Stanley L. Engerman (Edited by), Robert E. Gallman (Edited by)

9780521553087, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 August 2000

1200 pages, 68 b/w illus. 1 map 91 tables
23.5 x 16.4 x 7 cm, 1.745 kg

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Volume III surveys the economic history of the United States, Canada, and the Caribbean during the twentieth century. Its chapters trace the century's major events, notably the Great Depression and the two world wars, as well as its long-term trends, such as changing technology, the rise of the corporate economy, and the development of labor law. The book also discusses agriculture, population, labor markets, and urban and regional structural changes. Other chapters examine inequality and poverty, trade and foreign relations, government regulation and the public sector, and banking and finance.

1. American macroeconomic growth in the era of knowledge-based progress: the long-run perspective Moses Abramovitz and Paul A. David
2. Structural changes: regional and urban Carol E. Heim
3. Twentieth-century Canadian economic history Alan G. Green
4. The twentieth-century record of inequality and poverty in the United States Robert D. Plotnick, Eugene Smolensky, Eirik Evenhouse and Siobhan Reilly
5. The Great Depression Peter Temin
6. War and the American economy in the twentieth century Michael Edelstein
7. US foreign trade and trade policy in the twentieth century Peter H. Lindert
8. United States foreign financial relations in the twentieth century Barry Eichengreen
9. Twentieth-century American population growth Richard A. Easterlin
10. Labor markets in the twentieth century Claudia Goldin
11. Labor law Christopher L. Tomlins
12. The transformation of Northern Agriculture from 1910–1990 Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode
13. Banking and finance in the twentieth century Eugene N. White
14. Twentieth-century technological change David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg
15. The US corporate economy in the twentieth century Louis Galambos
16. Government regulation of business Richard H. K. Vietor
17. The public sector W. Elliot Brownlee.

Subject Areas: Economic history [KCZ], Economics, finance, business & management [K], 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 [HBLW], History of the Americas [HBJK]