Louis P Cain
Biographic Data
| ID | 1089706 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louis P Cain |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louis P |
| FAMILY NAME | Cain |
| SIGNATURE | CAIN L P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 93 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The World of Juliette Kinzie
Was what ail’d ya what kill’d ya
Survival in 19th century cities
Reflections on the cliometrics revolution
Similar Economic Histories, Different Industrial Structures
Industries that have different structures in Europe than in America can teach useful lessons about industrial evolution. Despite similar initial histories, European professional sports leagues adopted team promotion and relegation, which facilitates much easier entry than is possible in North America, where leagues themselves create new franchises to sell to investors. By contrasting the histories of the English Football League and the National B…
From Big Shoulders to Big Macs
Chicago's economy changed over the 20th century from one known for its physical prowess to one known for its mental prowess, from a manufacturing center to a service center. It remained the home of multinational corporations, but in many cases, their production was moved elsewhere. The meatpacking industry is representative of the Chicago economy at the start of the 20th century, whereas McDonald's is consistent with what it had become by the end…
Amassing Power
This impressive book provides detail often missing in stories about foreign investment, and it alters the conventional understanding of those stories. It begins in the late nineteenth century when the Quebec government sold the rights to the Saguenay River's waterpower to Thomas Willson and Benjamin Scott and other Canadians. Their projects “stalled for want of power customers or sufficient venture capital.” Willson became affiliated with the sma…
Death and spending
Les taux de mortalité américains par typhoïdes, dysenteries et diarrhées ont fortement décliné au cours du premier tiers du xx e siècle, c'est-à-dire à l'époque où les villes américaines ont accru leurs dépenses d'adduction d'eau, de réseaux d'égouts et de ramassage des ordures. Cet article traite de deux questions. Quelle baisse de la mortalité les villes obtiennent-elles en retour des dépenses réalisées en travaux d'assainissement ? Quels sont …
The American Mayor
The growing commercialism of zoos and aquariums
Although the mission of zoos and aquariums (species preservation, exhibition, education, and research) has not changed, the weights attached to their multiple goals and the means to accomplish them have. In particular, these institutions have undertaken costly programs to preserve endangered species. Through an examination of alternative revenue sources we demonstrate that institutions accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA)…
The growing commercialism of zoos and aquariums
Snow in the Cities
Journal Article Snow in the Cities: A History of America's Urban Response. By Blake McKelvey. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1995. xxiv, 202 pp. $39.00, ISBN 1-878822-54-3.) Get access Louis P. Cain Louis P. Cain Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 587–588, https://doi.org/10.2307/2944957 Pub…
Biased Technical Change, Scale, and Factor Substitution in American Industry, 1850–1919
Biased technical change, scale economies, and factor substitution were part of U.S. manufacturing's technical response to factor price movements during the period 1850 to 1919. In this article we employ the cost dual of a Generalized Leontief production function to test directly for the presence of these three effects for nineteen two-digit manufacturing sectors. Biased technical change is found in all but one sector; scale economies in all but t…
William Dean' Theory of Urban Growth
William H. Dean, Jr. argued the development of a commercial agglomeration at any site is a function of three interrelated variables: trade routes, position, and nodality. Industrial agglomerations follow commercial ones. Dean's theory is discussed and applied to Chicago's growth before the Great Fire of 1871. The initial development of Chicago's transportation infrastructure is described. Data for the balance of receipts and shipments of selected…
Great Waters
Journal Article Great Waters: A History of Boston's Water Supply. By Fern L. Nesson. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983. xi + 106 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Louis P. Cain Louis P. Cain Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 643–644, https://doi.org/10.23…
To annex or not? A tale of two towns
Those Army Engineers
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
Planning for Peace
The Surplus Property Act of 1944 established several social objectives for the disposal of war surplus. In particular, small business was to be benefited; concentration was to be reduced. Such objectives are better considered as part of the war mobilization rather than the peacetime reconversion. While suggesting that concentration was not reduced, the evidence also suggests that concentration is not an inevitable consequence of war. Social objec…
The Consent Decree in the Meatpacking Industry, 1920–1956
In the second of two articles, Professors Aduddell and Cain take the story of the application of antitrust law to the large meatpackers from the 1920 consent decree to Judge Julius Hoffman's 1956 decision not to lift the decree. Despite fundamental changes in the technology and structure of the food distribution industry, and strong indications that the packers' proposed plan to sell at retail was no longer good business, Hoffman refused to remov…
Public Policy Toward “The Greatest Trust in the World”
In the first of two articles, Professors Aduddell and Cain introduce the complex relations between a dynamic meatpacking industry and a government committed, in uncertain degree, to the philosophy of antitrust. From its earliest beginnings as an industry in the 1830s, meatpacking has experienced constantly changing parameters of technology, supply, demand, and public policy. Matters reached the first of several climaxes a few years after the new …
Factor Biases and Technical Change in Manufacturing
This paper examines the proposition that U.S. manufacturing experienced biased technical change during the period 1850-1919. Tests for bias, in Hicksian terms, are conducted using the translog cost dual. Redefined census data permit these tests to be made at the two-digit level of industry classification and with four inputs considered-labor, capital, materials, and a residual factor input. The tests demonstrate that labor-saving and capital-usin…
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
Journal Article Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago. By Louis P. Cain. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978. xiv + 173 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Clay McShane Clay McShane Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages…
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
The Visible Hand
Survival in 19th century cities
Biased Technical Change, Scale, and Factor Substitution in American Industry, 1850–1919
Biased technical change, scale economies, and factor substitution were part of U.S. manufacturing's technical response to factor price movements during the period 1850 to 1919. In this article we employ the cost dual of a Generalized Leontief production function to test directly for the presence of these three effects for nineteen two-digit manufacturing sectors. Biased technical change is found in all but one sector; scale economies in all but t…
Public Policy Toward “The Greatest Trust in the World”
In the first of two articles, Professors Aduddell and Cain introduce the complex relations between a dynamic meatpacking industry and a government committed, in uncertain degree, to the philosophy of antitrust. From its earliest beginnings as an industry in the 1830s, meatpacking has experienced constantly changing parameters of technology, supply, demand, and public policy. Matters reached the first of several climaxes a few years after the new …
Business Enterprise and Economic Change
Journal Article Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. Business Enterprise and Economic Change Get access Business Enterprise and Economic Change. Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson. Edited by Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 323. $12.50.) Barry Supple Barry Supple University of Sussex. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, V…
Similar Economic Histories, Different Industrial Structures
Industries that have different structures in Europe than in America can teach useful lessons about industrial evolution. Despite similar initial histories, European professional sports leagues adopted team promotion and relegation, which facilitates much easier entry than is possible in North America, where leagues themselves create new franchises to sell to investors. By contrasting the histories of the English Football League and the National B…
Business Enterprise and Economic Change. Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson
Factor Biases and Technical Change in Manufacturing
This paper examines the proposition that U.S. manufacturing experienced biased technical change during the period 1850-1919. Tests for bias, in Hicksian terms, are conducted using the translog cost dual. Redefined census data permit these tests to be made at the two-digit level of industry classification and with four inputs considered-labor, capital, materials, and a residual factor input. The tests demonstrate that labor-saving and capital-usin…
Amassing Power
This impressive book provides detail often missing in stories about foreign investment, and it alters the conventional understanding of those stories. It begins in the late nineteenth century when the Quebec government sold the rights to the Saguenay River's waterpower to Thomas Willson and Benjamin Scott and other Canadians. Their projects “stalled for want of power customers or sufficient venture capital.” Willson became affiliated with the sma…
Planning for Peace
The Surplus Property Act of 1944 established several social objectives for the disposal of war surplus. In particular, small business was to be benefited; concentration was to be reduced. Such objectives are better considered as part of the war mobilization rather than the peacetime reconversion. While suggesting that concentration was not reduced, the evidence also suggests that concentration is not an inevitable consequence of war. Social objec…
Business Enterprise and Economic Change
Journal Article Business Enterprise and Economic Change: Essays in Honor of Harold Williamson. Ed. by Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, xi + 323 pp. Illustration, charts, tables, appendix, and notes. $12.50.) Get access Arthur M. Johnson Arthur M. Johnson University of Maine, Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, J…
To annex or not? A tale of two towns
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
Journal Article Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago. By Louis P. Cain. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978. xiv + 173 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Clay McShane Clay McShane Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages…
Unfouling the Public's Nest
Water pollution, with its latent and manifest effects on public health, is one of the most complex problems faced by technology, society, and government. The high social impact of pollution seems to militate for governmental control or regulation of pollution control systems.' However, several crucial and persistent public policy questions immediately arise. Should the control be local or national? Are existing governmental bodies capable of copi…
The World of Juliette Kinzie
Snow in the Cities
Journal Article Snow in the Cities: A History of America's Urban Response. By Blake McKelvey. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1995. xxiv, 202 pp. $39.00, ISBN 1-878822-54-3.) Get access Louis P. Cain Louis P. Cain Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 587–588, https://doi.org/10.2307/2944957 Pub…
The Consent Decree in the Meatpacking Industry, 1920–1956
In the second of two articles, Professors Aduddell and Cain take the story of the application of antitrust law to the large meatpackers from the 1920 consent decree to Judge Julius Hoffman's 1956 decision not to lift the decree. Despite fundamental changes in the technology and structure of the food distribution industry, and strong indications that the packers' proposed plan to sell at retail was no longer good business, Hoffman refused to remov…
Raising and Watering a City
The engineers responsible for invention and mechanization in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation are prominent historical figures, but few people are aware of the men who pioneered the sanitation systems so crucial to urbanization. As cities grew, their initial approaches to waste disposal and water supply proved unacceptable. As early as 1798 Benjamin Latrobe noted in his journal that the fresh groundwater which located the site of Ph…
The Sanitary District of Chicago
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Raising and Watering a City
The engineers responsible for invention and mechanization in agriculture, manufacturing, and transportation are prominent historical figures, but few people are aware of the men who pioneered the sanitation systems so crucial to urbanization. As cities grew, their initial approaches to waste disposal and water supply proved unacceptable. As early as 1798 Benjamin Latrobe noted in his journal that the fresh groundwater which located the site of Ph…
Business Enterprise and Economic Change
Journal Article Business Enterprise and Economic Change: Essays in Honor of Harold Williamson. Ed. by Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, xi + 323 pp. Illustration, charts, tables, appendix, and notes. $12.50.) Get access Arthur M. Johnson Arthur M. Johnson University of Maine, Orono Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 61, Issue 1, J…
Business Enterprise and Economic Change
Journal Article Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. Business Enterprise and Economic Change Get access Business Enterprise and Economic Change. Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson. Edited by Louis P. Cain and Paul J. Uselding. (Kent, Ohio: The Kent State University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 323. $12.50.) Barry Supple Barry Supple University of Sussex. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, V…
Unfouling the Public's Nest
Water pollution, with its latent and manifest effects on public health, is one of the most complex problems faced by technology, society, and government. The high social impact of pollution seems to militate for governmental control or regulation of pollution control systems.' However, several crucial and persistent public policy questions immediately arise. Should the control be local or national? Are existing governmental bodies capable of copi…
Business Enterprise and Economic Change. Essays in Honor of Harold F. Williamson
Comment by Cain
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Retrospective Technology Assessment-1976
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
The Visible Hand
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
Journal Article Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis: The Case of Chicago. By Louis P. Cain. (DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1978. xiv + 173 pp. Maps, illustrations, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Clay McShane Clay McShane Northeastern University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 4, March 1980, Pages…
Planning for Peace
The Surplus Property Act of 1944 established several social objectives for the disposal of war surplus. In particular, small business was to be benefited; concentration was to be reduced. Such objectives are better considered as part of the war mobilization rather than the peacetime reconversion. While suggesting that concentration was not reduced, the evidence also suggests that concentration is not an inevitable consequence of war. Social objec…
The Consent Decree in the Meatpacking Industry, 1920–1956
In the second of two articles, Professors Aduddell and Cain take the story of the application of antitrust law to the large meatpackers from the 1920 consent decree to Judge Julius Hoffman's 1956 decision not to lift the decree. Despite fundamental changes in the technology and structure of the food distribution industry, and strong indications that the packers' proposed plan to sell at retail was no longer good business, Hoffman refused to remov…
Public Policy Toward “The Greatest Trust in the World”
In the first of two articles, Professors Aduddell and Cain introduce the complex relations between a dynamic meatpacking industry and a government committed, in uncertain degree, to the philosophy of antitrust. From its earliest beginnings as an industry in the 1830s, meatpacking has experienced constantly changing parameters of technology, supply, demand, and public policy. Matters reached the first of several climaxes a few years after the new …
Factor Biases and Technical Change in Manufacturing
This paper examines the proposition that U.S. manufacturing experienced biased technical change during the period 1850-1919. Tests for bias, in Hicksian terms, are conducted using the translog cost dual. Redefined census data permit these tests to be made at the two-digit level of industry classification and with four inputs considered-labor, capital, materials, and a residual factor input. The tests demonstrate that labor-saving and capital-usin…
Those Army Engineers
Sanitation Strategy for a Lakefront Metropolis
Great Waters
Journal Article Great Waters: A History of Boston's Water Supply. By Fern L. Nesson. (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1983. xi + 106 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $15.00.) Get access Louis P. Cain Louis P. Cain Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 3, December 1983, Pages 643–644, https://doi.org/10.23…
To annex or not? A tale of two towns
William Dean' Theory of Urban Growth
William H. Dean, Jr. argued the development of a commercial agglomeration at any site is a function of three interrelated variables: trade routes, position, and nodality. Industrial agglomerations follow commercial ones. Dean's theory is discussed and applied to Chicago's growth before the Great Fire of 1871. The initial development of Chicago's transportation infrastructure is described. Data for the balance of receipts and shipments of selected…
Biased Technical Change, Scale, and Factor Substitution in American Industry, 1850–1919
Biased technical change, scale economies, and factor substitution were part of U.S. manufacturing's technical response to factor price movements during the period 1850 to 1919. In this article we employ the cost dual of a Generalized Leontief production function to test directly for the presence of these three effects for nineteen two-digit manufacturing sectors. Biased technical change is found in all but one sector; scale economies in all but t…
Snow in the Cities
Journal Article Snow in the Cities: A History of America's Urban Response. By Blake McKelvey. (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 1995. xxiv, 202 pp. $39.00, ISBN 1-878822-54-3.) Get access Louis P. Cain Louis P. Cain Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 587–588, https://doi.org/10.2307/2944957 Pub…
The growing commercialism of zoos and aquariums
Although the mission of zoos and aquariums (species preservation, exhibition, education, and research) has not changed, the weights attached to their multiple goals and the means to accomplish them have. In particular, these institutions have undertaken costly programs to preserve endangered species. Through an examination of alternative revenue sources we demonstrate that institutions accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA)…
The growing commercialism of zoos and aquariums
The American Mayor
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