Economic History Seminar Liveblogging
Mock Midterm: Econ 113: American Economic History: Fall 2007

American Economic History: Econ 113: September 24, 2007 Lecture Headings

From 1865 to 1929: Finance, Capital, Labor, Technology

Growth, Industrialization, Wages, and Profits

Labor: Education and Immigration:

  • Immigration

    • Gains to immigrants
    • Gains to native-born consumers
    • Gains to native-born capital owners
    • Losses to native-born unskilled
    • Francis Walker counterfactual...
  • Education

    • Technical education
    • Elementary education
    • High-school education
    • Homesteading the information frontier after 1890...

Capital, Finance, and Technology Intermixed:

  • John D. Rockefeller and company
  • Standard Oil
  • Capital and finance
  • Winner-take-all--or winner-take-much--economies
  • Technology and capital
  • Dilemmas of corporate control
  • J.P. Morgan and company...

From Shafts to Wires:

  • Newcomen and Watt
  • Edison and Tesla
  • Shafts
  • Wires
  • Mass production
  • "Fordism"
  • IWW

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