Download or read book Essays in Southern Economic Development Edited by Melvin L Greenhut and W T Whitman written by Melvin Leonard GREENHUT (and WHITMAN (William Tate)) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Southern Economic Development written by Melvin L. Greenhut and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South the Nation and the World written by David Lee Carlton and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the rest of British North America, the American South was "born capitalist." The slave plantation, then, was essentially a form of business enterprise like any other—indeed, one quite modern and sophisticated for its time. There were initially very few significant differences in business culture between the northern and southern parts of what became the United States. Yet the plantation placed its peculiar stamp on the South, and vice versa, and its path of development diverged increasingly from that of the growing manufacturing belt of the North. In their essays collected in The South, the Nation, and the World, David Carlton and Peter Coclanis effectively argue that the chronic economic difficulties of the American South cannot simply be explained away as resulting from a distinctive "premodern" business climate, because there was actually very little variation between one region’s business climate and another’s during the Antebellum period. Instead, it was the collapse of the slave regime in the 1860s that left the South in dire need of economic restructuring, and by Reconstruction the emergent American economy had foreclosed options formerly available to southern enterprise. Forced to play catch-up, southerners have had at best mixed success in the continuing struggle to create an economic life affording stable growth and broad opportunity to all the region’s people—and Carlton and Coclanis offer a fascinating illumination of the twists and turns in that economic history.
Download or read book Essays on Southern Economic Growth written by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Research Department and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Southern Economic Growth written by Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. Research Department and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The South the Nation and the World written by David Lee Carlton and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, the authors argue that the chronic economic difficulties of the American South cannot be explained away as resulting from a distinctive 'premodern' business climate, since there was little variation between regional business climates during the Antebellum period.
Download or read book Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy written by University of Texas at Arlington and published by College Station [Tex.] : Published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fledgling system of capitalist agriculture transformed former slaves into wage workers and former masters into employers, yet neither group could comfortably fit into its new role. Armstead L. Robinson discusses black freedom in the postbellum South and the new set of social relationships that emerged, while Thavolia Glymph traces the evolution of the share-wage system into sharecropping. Barbara J. Fields explores the erratic advance of capitalism in the New South and its effects on the southern economy. Harold D. Woodman concludes that emancipation alone could not guarantee the triumph of a completely new social order on post-war cotton plantations.
Download or read book Essays in Regional Economics written by John F. Kain and published by Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of essays on government policy and regional planning concerning developing areas in the USA - covers such topics as industrial development, industrial policy for both urban areas and rural areas surplus labour supply areas, urbanization, the employment opportunity promotion effects of new plants location (location of industry), capital flows, problems of rural poverty in Southern states, etc., and includes large-scale models for forecasting regional economic activity and descriptions of econometrics research methods.
Download or read book Technology Innovation and Southern Industrialization written by Susanna Delfino and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of its strong agrarian roots, the South has typically been viewed as a region not favorably disposed to innovation and technology. Yet innovation was never absent from industrialization in this part of the United States. From the early nineteenth century onward, southerners were as eager as other Americans to embrace technology as a path to modernity. This volume features seven essays that range widely across the region and its history, from the antebellum era to the present, to assess the role of innovations presumed lacking by most historians. Offering a challenging interpretation of industrialization in the South, these writings show that the benefits of innovations had to be carefully weighed against the costs to both industry and society. The essays consider a wide range of innovative technologies. Some examine specific industries in subregions: steamboats in the lower Mississippi valley, textile manufacturing in Georgia and Arkansas, coal mining in Virginia, and sugar planting and processing in Louisiana. Others consider the role of technology in South Carolina textile mills around the turn of the twentieth century, the electrification of the Tennessee valley, and telemedicine in contemporary Arizona--marking the expansion of the region into the southwestern Sunbelt. Together, these articles show that southerners set significant limitations on what technological innovations they were willing to adopt, particularly in a milieu where slaveholding agriculture had shaped the allocation of resources. They also reveal how scarcity of capital and continued reliance on agriculture influenced that allocation into the twentieth century, relieved eventually by federal spending during the Depression and its aftermath that sparked the Sunbelt South's economic boom. Technology, Innovation, and Southern Industrialization clearly demonstrates that the South's embrace of technological innovation in the modern era doesn't mark a radical change from the past but rather signals that such pursuits were always part of the region's economy. It deflates the myth of southern agrarianism while expanding the scope of antebellum American industrialization beyond the Northeast and offers new insights into the relationship of southern economic history to the region's society and politics.
Download or read book Essays in Development Economics Wealth and poverty written by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I, Wealth and Poverty, addresses domestic or internal development problems.
Download or read book Essays on some Lewisian themes of economic development written by Anup K. Sinha and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North South and South South written by F. Stewart and published by Springer. This book was released on 1991-11-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...an important and timely contribution to the study of South-South economic relations. It provides a cogent and detailed analysis...'-Henock Kifle, South Letter '...provides some interesting insights into the determinants and consequences of South-South trade.'- Frances Stewart, The World Economy 'This comprehensive, incisive work....represents both historical depth and topical breadth. ....This well-written analysis makes an important contribution to development studies, including development economics and development geography.'- Georges G. Cravins, The Journal of Asian Studies These essays explore interactions between North and South and South and South in trade, technology and finance, focusing on the interests of the South, and particularly the poor. The 'conventional' neo-classical approach is shown to have many theoretical deficiences, the consequences are often harmful to Southern interests, while the poor are neglected. The author concludes that the South should adopt a bargaining approach to N-S negotiations and urges for closer South-South relations in trade, technology and finance.
Download or read book Market Institutions and Economic Progress in the New South 1865 1900 written by Gary M. Walton and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Postbellum Southern Economy written by John James Kushma and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty and Exclusion in North and South written by Elizabeth Dowler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade there has been a worrying increase in poverty in the industrialised countries of the "North", while many of the developing countries of the "South" have experienced some improvement. This collection argues that there are a number of likenesses between the predicaments of North and South, and that these warrant further investigation and analysis.
Download or read book History Matters written by Timothy Guinnane and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-31 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining theoretical work with careful historical description and analysis of new data sources, History Matters makes a strong case for a more historical approach to economics, both by argument and by example. Seventeen original essays, written by distinguished economists and economic historians, use economic theory and historical cases to explore how and why "history matters." The chapters, which range in subject matter from the economic theory of irreversible investment to the nineteenth-century decline in U.S. rural fertility to the English poor law reform, are unified by three themes. The first explores the significance, causes, and consequences of path dependence in the evolution of technology and institutions. The second relates to the ways in which economic and political behavior are profoundly shaped and constrained by the cultural and political context inherited from history at a particular point in time. The final theme demonstrates the importance of integrating economic theory into historical research in the gathering and interpretation of data.
Download or read book Essays on Education and Rural Economic Growth written by Haizhen Li and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
