Shipping, Maritime Trade, and the Economic Development of Colonial North America
ISBN: 9780521169424 | 0521169429
Edition: RevisedFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date: 10/27/2011
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This 1972 study is of the North American colonial economy from the mid-seventeenth century to the American Revolution. The authors use quantitative analysis to prove that productivity was increasing not because of technological change, but rather because of improvements in market organization and reduced risks of business enterprise within markets.
Originally published in 1972, this study is of the North American colonial economy from the middle of the seventeenth century to the American Revolution, with emphasis o... MORE
Originally published in 1972, this study is of the North American colonial economy from the middle of the seventeenth century to the American Revolution, with emphasis o... MORE
| Preface and acknowledgements | p. vii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Colonial economic development: a suggested framework | p. 6 |
| Colonial economic development and trade: an overview | p. 27 |
| Colonial trade, distribution costs, and productivity change in shipping | p. 49 |
| Sources of productivity change in shipping and distribution | p. 73 |
| Overseas commodity trade, 1768-72 | p. 91 |
| The b... MORE | p. 114 |
| The balance of payments, 1768-72 | p. 137 |
| Reinterpretations of issues in colonial history | p. 156 |
| Data from the Naval Office Lists and estimates of trade with southern Europe and the West Indies for earlier years in the eighteenth century | p. 167 |
| Official values and real values of English exports to the colonies | p. 176 |
| Quantitative data related to shipping | p. 188 |
| Commodity exports and imports, 1768-72 | p. 204 |
| Utilization of shipping capacity | p. 237 |
| Foreign exchange earnings from the sale of ships to overseas buyers | p. 241 |
| Select bibliography | p. 246 |
| Index | p. 253 |
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