Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. The Stanford Tradition in Economic History -- Part One. Evolutionary Processes in Economics -- 2. Natural Resources and Economic Outcomes -- 3. The Institutionalization of Science in Europe, 1650- 1850 -- 4. The Fundamental Impact of the Slave Trade on African Economies -- 5. Similar Societies, Different Solutions: U.S. Indian Policy in Light of Australian Policy toward Aboriginal Peoples -- Part Two. Spatial Processes and Comparative Development -- 6. Financial Market and Industry Structure: A Comparison of the Banking and Textile Industries in Boston and Philadelphia in the Early Nineteenth Century -- 7. Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850- 1870 -- 8. Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development -- 9. Banking on the Periphery: The Cotton South, Systemic Seasonality, and the Limits of National Banking Reform -- 10. Rural Credit and Mobility in India -- Part Three. Revolution in Labor Markets -- 11. Labor-Market Regimes in U.S. Economic History -- 12. The Political Economy of Progress: Lessons from the Causes and Consequences of the New Deal -- 13. Teachers and Tipping Points: Historical Origins of the Teacher Quality Crisis -- 14. Inequality and Institutions in Twentieth-Century America -- 15. The Unexpected Long-Run Impact of the Minimum Wage: An Educational Cascade -- 16. America's First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung -- Appendix: Selected Publications of Gavin Wright -- Index.

This collection brings together leading economic historians to examine the connections between gradual, evolutionary change and more dramatic, revolutionary shifts in economic institutions.

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