| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 342 pages) : illustrations |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the Americas, 1800-1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800-1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein -- Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen -- An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin -- Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld -- Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Human capital.
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Human capital. |
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Economic development.
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Economic development. |
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Business and education.
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Business and education. |
| Chronological Term |
Geschichte |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic book.
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| Added Author |
Eltis, David, 1940-
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Lewis, Frank, 1947-
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Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Human capital and institutions. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521769587 (DLC) 2009020208 (OCoLC)349248332 |
| ISBN |
9780511605093 (electronic book) |
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0511605099 (electronic book) |
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0521769582 (hardback) |
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9780521769587 (hardback) |
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9780521769587 (hardback) |
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9780511603600 |
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0511603606 |
| Standard No. |
9786612317934 |
| Report No. |
MYILIB_CUp |
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