Facts and Factors in Economic History : : Articles by former Students of Edwin Francis Gay / / ed. by Arthur H. Cole, A. L. Dunham, N. S. B. Gras.

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• MitwirkendeR: Bezanson, Anne,; Buchanan, D. H.,; Clemen, Rudolf A.,; Cole, Arthur H.,; Cole, Arthur Harrison,; Copeland, Melvin T.,; Davis, Joseph S.,; Dietz, Frederick C.,; Dunham, A. L.,; Dunham, Arthur L.,; Gay, Margaret Randolph,; Gras, N. S. B.,; Gray, H. L.,; Hamilton, Earl J.,; Hemmeon, J. C.,; Hodge, Charles L.,; Holcombe, A. N.,; Hunter, Louis C.,; Huse, Charles Phillips,; Jackman, W. T.,; Klein, Julius,; Lansing Dulles, Eleanor,; Lincoln, Edmond E.,; Lunt, W. E.,; Martin, S. O.,; Martin, Thomas P.,; Mclaren, W.W.,; Perkins, Clarence,; Persons, Charles E.,; Ruggles, C. O.,; Scroggs, William O.,; Sprague, Blanche Hazard,; Usher, Abbott Payson,; Waterman Gilboy, Elizabeth,; Wolfe, A. B.,; Wright, Chester W.,
• HerausgeberIn: Cole, Arthur H.,; Dunham, A. L.,; Gras, N. S. B.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]; ©1932
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: Reprint 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (757 p.) :; 1 Frontispiz

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- THE IMPORTANCE OF ECONOMIC HISTORY -- THE ECONOMICS OF POPULATION IN ANCIENT GREECE -- THE INFLUENCE OF ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC REVENUES IN ENGLAND -- THE CONSENT OF THE ENGLISH LOWER CLERGY TO TAXATION, 1166–1216 -- THE FIRST BENEVOLENCE -- ENGLISH PUBLIC FINANCE AND THE NATIONAL STATE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY -- ASPECTS OF ELIZABETHAN APPRENTICESHIP -- MEDIEVAL SPANISH GILDS -- SPANISH SHIPS AND SHIPPING IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES -- SPANISH MERCANTILISM BEFORE 1700 -- THE GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH, 1848–1854 -- THE DIPLOMACY OF RICHARD COBDEN IN HIS COMMERCIAL NEGOTIATIONS WITH FRANCE -- BATA, CHIEF FIGURE IN THE WORLD'S SHOE INDUSTRY -- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE TEXTILE INDUSTRIES IN JAPAN -- THE BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN PROVINCES BEFORE CONFEDERATION – TRADE AND TARIFFS -- SOME RECENT ECONOMIC CHANGES IN CANADA -- AMERICAN MATERIALISM: AN ECONOMIST'S INTERPRETATION -- THE RISE OF THE FACTORY IN THE AMERICAN CARPET MANUFACTURE -- PIONEER BANKING IN ALABAMA -- FACTORS IN THE EARLY PITTSBURGH IRON INDUSTRY -- ECONOMIC BEGINNINGS OF THE BOSTON AND ALBANY RAILROAD, 1831–1867 -- FREE TRADE AND THE OREGON QUESTION, 1842–1846 -- SOME ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE LIGHT AND POWER INDUSTRY -- SOME INTIMATE HISTORY FROM THE LAST YEARS OF A SEVENTYFOUR YEAR OLD BUSINESS -- AMERICAN POLITICS AT THE CROSSROADS -- THE EVOLUTION OF REPARATION IDEAS -- TYPES OF CAPITALISM -- THE MANAGERIAL FACTOR IN MARKETING -- DEMAND AS A FACTOR IN THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION -- APPLIED ECONOMIC HISTORY: SOME RELATIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC HISTORY AND MODERN BUSINESS MANAGEMENT -- THE EFFECT OF SCIENTIFIC INVENTIONS UPON ECONOMIC TRENDS -- SOME HISTORICAL ASPECTS OF LABOR TURNOVER -- TECHNOLOGICAL UNEMPLOYMENT -- THE SPECTER OF DEARTH OF FOOD: HISTORY’S ANSWER TO SIR WILLIAM CROOKES -- SUBSCRIBERS