Economic Growth: Lessons from Two Centuries of American Agriculture

Two Centuries of American Macroeconomic Growth From Exploitation of Resource Abundance to Knowledge-Driven Development

This monograph is concerned with the nature of the process of macroeconomic growth that has characterized the U. S. experience, and manifested itself in the changing pace and sources of the continuing rise real output per capita over the course of the past two hundred years. A key observation that emerges from the long-term quantitative economic record is that the proximate sources of increases...

Seven Centuries of Economic Growth and Decline

This paper investigates very long run pre-industrial economic development. New annual GDP per capita data for six European countries over the last seven hundred years paints a clearer picture of the history of European economic development. First, it confirms that sustained growth has been a recent phenomenon, but rejects the argument that there was no permanent growth in living standards befor...

Two Centuries of American Medicine 1776-1976

The work is well organised into three sections covering the first century, the period of scientific advance 1876-1946 and the period of explosive growth 1946-1976. In the first section there is a selective account of medical education and practice and of hygiene and hospitals and of the conflicts and stresses in a country where varied standards prevailed. In the period of scientific advance the...

Lessons from Asian Agriculture

Lessons from Agriculture

Agriculture has two ways to increase its output, expanding the land area under cultivation and improving the yields on cultivated land. If agricultural growth and performance taken to increase the farming incomes of rural families, then a third way can be added, i.e. shifting the product composition to higher value products. For decades, it has been commented that, globally the possibilities fo...