scholarly journals Nineteenth Century Weight in the United States: Revaluating Net Nutrition During Economic Development

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott A. Carson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Net Nutrition

Property Law, Expropriation, and Resource Allocation by Government: the United States, 1789–1910

1973 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 232-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry N. Scheiber
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
American History ◽  
Private Property ◽  
The United States ◽  
Property Law ◽  
To Receive

Expropriation of private property by government is seldom found on the list of policies which have influenced the course of economic development in American history. To be sure, the once-vigorous myth of antebellum laisser-faire has been discarded; and it is no longer taken as a startling proposition that governmental interventions to promote and regulate the economy occurred regularly throughout the nineteenth century. But for two reasons, I think, expropriation as an instrument of conscious resource allocation has failed to receive from historians the attention it deserves.

scholarly journals Complementary and Competitive Regimes of Accumulation: Natural Resources and Development in the World-System

2012 ◽  
pp. 50-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Astra Bonini
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Natural Resource ◽  
World Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War

During the post-war period, natural resource production has often been associated withperipheralization in the world-economy. This paper seeks to demonstrate that this associationdoes not hold when examined from a long-term perspective, and explains the conditions underwhich natural resource production can support upward economic mobility in the world-system.First, this paper provides evidence that the production of cash crops and resource extraction hasnot always equaled peripheralization in the world-economy, as demonstrated by, among otherthings, the upward economic mobility of the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealandduring the nineteenth century. It then puts forth a new hypothesis that the existence ofopportunities for raw material producing countries depends on whether the hegemonic regime ofaccumulation at a given time structures the economy in a way that is either complementary orcompetitive to the economic development of raw material producing countries. By examining theBritish centered regime of accumulation during the nineteenth century, we find that it wascomparatively complementary to economic development in raw material producing countrieswhereas the twentieth century United States centered regime was comparatively competitive withraw material producers. Based on a comparison with Britain and the United States, the paperalso suggests that China’s increasingly central role in the world-economy may be comparativelycomplementary to economic development in raw material producing countries.

Slavery and Economic Development: Brazil and the United States South in the Nineteenth Century

1981 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 620-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Graham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Antebellum South ◽  
United States South ◽  
The North ◽  
Standard Of Comparison

All history is comparative. The judgments historians make are derived from some explicit or implicit standard of comparison. Thus, when historians describe the antebellum South in the United States as technically backward, rural, nonindustrial, socially retrograde, and paternalistic, they mean to say that it was so in comparison with the North. When historians of nineteenthcentury Brazil describe it in the same terms, they compare it either to the hegemonic capitalist areas of that period, including the United States North, or to Brazil itself at later periods in its history.

International Specie Flows and American Monetary Stability, 1834–1860

1968 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas D. Willett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Balance Of Payments ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
International Flow ◽  
Monetary Stability ◽  
Monetary System ◽  
International Sector

The importance of the international sector in initiating the nineteenth-century economic development of the United States has been widely acknowledged. Its influence on American economic stability, however, is by no means as well established. Controversy persists concerning the interrelationships between the international flow of liquid funds evidencing balance-of-payments disequilibrium and the American monetary system during the period from the 1830's to the Civil War.

scholarly journals Nineteenth-Century Urbanization Patterns in the United States

1979 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 961-974 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roger F. Riefler
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The United States ◽  
Significant Progress ◽  
Industrial Transformation

Urbanization of the United States in the nineteenth century has been described in numerous scholarly texts. As Eric Lampard, writing in 1961, pointed out, “… the urban-industrial transformation [has] now become part of the furniture displayed in every up-to-date textbook of U.S. history.…” Yet, as the same author had pointed out six years earlier, at that time “no systematic study has ever been made of the role of cities in recent [as opposed to medieval] economic development. We are still unable to counter the charge that cities are ‘abnormal’ and ‘costly’ with any account of the ways in which they have actually facilitated, let alone fostered, progressive economic change.” Obviously, since 1955 significant progress has been made towards filling this lacuna.

The Revulsion Against Internal Improvements

1950 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carter Goodrich
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Industrialized Countries ◽  
Direct Participation ◽  
Internal Improvements ◽  
Significant Change

The purpose of this article is to examine a significant change that took place in American public policy during the nineteenth century. For many decades American governments, especially those of states and localities, had engaged in extensive programs for the promotion of economic development by the construction or support of works of internal improvement. It may now be pertinent, at a time when so many of the less industrialized countries are engaged in programs of economic development, to ask why and when and by what processes governments in the United States came to withdraw from direct participation in the promotion of canals and railways.

Guatemala, the United States, and Communism in the Americas

1955 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fredrick B. Pike
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
Main Support

An orderly and almost bloodless movement brought Guatemala independence from Spain in 1821. The tranquil inception of national existence contrasts vividly with the ensuing century and a quarter, a period marked by turbulence and a multitude of factors tending to retard political and economic development. The 1821 Revolution resulted only in the overthrow of Spanish rule; other traditions of colonial times were not so easily cast aside. Politics continued to be the exclusive domain of long-term, personalistic rulers, while economic policy remained under the control of a numerically small land-owning aristocracy. The political chiefs generally allied themselves with the conservative lords of land. Certainly this was true of Rafael Carrera, the uneducated mestizo who dominated the country for nearly twenty years in the mid-nineteenth century. The same pattern existed during the dictatorship of Manuel Estrada Cabrera, 1898–1920. In spite of a few concessions to liberalism, the construction of many roads, and the redistribution of a small amount of land, there is no doubt that the rule of Jorge Ubico, 1930–1944, relied for its main support upon the arch-conservative landed aristocrats.

scholarly journals In the Name of the Son (and the Daughter): Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850 –1940

2015 ◽  
Vol 105 (8) ◽  
pp. 2695-2724 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Olivetti ◽  
M. Daniele Paserman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Human Capital ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Marriage Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Disparities ◽  
Development Trends

This paper estimates historical intergenerational elasticities between fathers and children of both sexes in the United States using a novel empirical strategy. The key insight of our approach is that the information about socioeconomic status conveyed by first names can be used to create pseudo-links across generations. We find that both father-son and father-daughter elasticities were flat during the nineteenth century, increased sharply between 1900 and 1920, and declined slightly thereafter. We discuss the role of regional disparities in economic development, trends in inequality and returns to human capital, and the marriage market in explaining these patterns. (JEL D63, J12, J16, J24, J62, N31, N32)

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