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2.1 Economic Development, Nominal Wage Flexibility, and Antebellum Labor Markets America experienced several expansions and contractions in economic ac- tivity between its founding and the Civil War. The Embargo of 1807 abruptly ended the export boom of the Napoleonic Wars, a recession followed the War
A History of the Global Economy. Why are some parts of the world poor today, while others are rich? At which point in time did they diverge, and what were the reasons? These core questions are addressed in a concise and accessible introduction to global economic development since 1500.
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Would slavery have survived had the country managed to avoid the Civil War? How did the plantation economy work? How did economic issues influence the coming of the Civil War?
1 Σεπ 1986 · In reconstructing the early business history of black America, Professor Walker emphasizes the diversity and complexity of antebellum black entrepreneurship, both slave and free. With few exceptions, prevailing historical assessments have confined their analyses of pre-Civil War black business participation to marginal enterprises, concentrated ...
15 Απρ 2017 · Regional gaps in income dating back to the pre–Civil War era still persist in the United States. This chapter reviews evidence by economic historians of the United States and traces those disparities to differences in geography, including climate, ecology and natural endowments.
In this article, the author of The Invisible Hand in American History analyzes the economies of the Northeast and the South and their interrelationships before the Civil War.
