Poverty and Prosperity: A Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860

Poverty, Illiteracy cum Prosperity Theology: A Quantitative Study

Prosperity Theology is the teaching that believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the “sowing of seeds” through the faithful payment of tithes and offerings. However, the literature reveals that most adherents to the prosperity gospel are not prospering financially and prosperity preachers hav...

Claude Bernard, Cahier de Notes 1850–1860

the discovery of antitoxins (von Behring and Kitasato), the standardization of toxins and anti-toxins, the distinction between active and passive immunization (Ehrlich), bacteriolysis (Pfeiffer), haemolysis, agglutination of blood corpuscles as a diagnostic test, the opsonic index, and prophylaxis and treatment of many diseases by vaccines. In certain diseases, for example, cerebro-spinal menin...

Family Structure , Race , and Wealth Ownership : A Longitudinal Exploration of Wealth Accumulation Processes

Recent research has demonstrated clear racial inequalities in wealth ownership, but the research is less certain about why these differences exist . Evidence that black wealth ownership, in particular, falls short of white wealth ownership has amassed at an increasing rate. In 1992, while median black income was about 60 percent of median white income, median net worth for blacks was only 8 per...

Entrepreneurs , Firms and Global Wealth since 1850

Wealth Accumulation and the Health of Union Army Veterans, 1860-1870.

How did the wartime health of Union Army recruits affect their wealth accumulation through 1870? Wounds and exposure to combat had strong negative effects on subsequent savings, as did illnesses while in the service. The impact of poor health was particularly strong for unskilled workers. Health was a powerful determinant of nineteenth-century economic mobility. Infectious diseases' influences ...