MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01883nam a22002778a 4500
001 2009020208
003 DLC
005 20090522100817.0
008 090521s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009020208
020 $a9780521769587 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$cDLC
050 00 $aHD4904.7$b.H8583 2009
082 00 $a306$222
245 00 $aHuman capital and institutions :$ba long run view /$cedited by David Eltis, Frank Lewis, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.
260 $aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0905
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aBiotechnology 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 institutions 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.
650 0 $aHuman capital.
650 0 $aEconomic development.
650 0 $aBusiness and education.
700 1 $aEltis, David,$d1940-
700 1 $aLewis, Frank,$d1947-
700 1 $aSokoloff, Kenneth Lee.