Stanley Lebergott
Biographic Data
| ID | 290740 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stanley Lebergott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stanley |
| FAMILY NAME | Lebergott |
| SIGNATURE | LEBERGOTT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pursuing Happiness
The Americans
Journal Article The Americans: An Economic Record. By Stanley Lebergott. (New York: Norton, 1984. xvii + 541 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $24.95.) Get access W. Elliot Brownlee W. Elliot Brownlee University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Page 719, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904369 Published: 01 …
The Demand for Land
The demand for land in the United States was shaped by inherited attitudes and modern asset creation. Immigrants inherited the view that landowners had an enhanced chance of survival in a "starving time." But the United States farmer also found that by clearing his unimproved acres he could create assets from otherwise idle time between seasonal peaks in the use of family labor. Public land sales in the South from 1820 to 1860 correlate well with…
The Americans
Why the South Lost
Journal Article Why the South Lost: Commercial Purpose in the Confederacy, 1861–1865 Get access Stanley Lebergott Stanley Lebergott professor of economics Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, Pages 58–74, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890521 Published: 01 June 1983
Through the Blockade
Although cotton smuggling through the North's blockade of the South during the American Civil War has often been viewed as a highly profitable activity, only a small percentage of blockade-running ships made more than one run. New figures for capture rates reconcile these observations by showing that the risks of blockade running were substantial. Estimates are also provided for the amount of cotton smuggled through the blockade and of its dispos…
The Returns to U.S. Imperialism, 1890–1929
The paper focuses on U.S. foreign investment. Part I notes its trivial impact on returns to U.S. capital and considers its greater importance for five industry groups. Part II reviews the economic advantages accruing to U.S. citizens from interventions in Panama and Cuba. Part III, the bulk of the paper, asks what impact U.S. foreign investment had on Latin American factor returns. It finds no evidence in the anti-imperialist literature for the a…
The American Economy
Parameters and Policies in the U.S. Economy
Journal Article Parameters and Policies in the U.S. Economy Get access Parameters and Policies in the U.S. Economy. Edited by Otto Eckstein. (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1976. Pp. viii + 389. 838.50. Dfl. 100.00.) Stanley Lebergott Stanley Lebergott Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, Pages 804…
The American Economy
Are The Rich Getting Richer? Trends in U.S. Wealth Concentration
When tested against U.S. evidence back to the nineteenth century a straight-forward model of wealth accumulation contradicts the belief that “the rich are getting richer.” If the wealth owned by the top 1 percent of American families in 1922 had earned only a modest 8 percent yearly until 1953 then they (or their heirs) would have owned 98 percent of personal wealth—instead of an actual share of 28 percent. The erosion of top wealth groups also a…
A Reply to Harold G. Vatter
Time on the Cross
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A New Technique for Time Series? A Comment
characterize Solow's review as ad Iominem in larger design of his article, suggesting certain frivolity of purpose; (4) to defend his (Galbraith's) scholarship as perhaps not superior to Solow's but adequate; and, finally, (5) to suggest that Solow's personal interest in existing economic theory perhaps blinds Solow to new insights (such as The New Industrial State) that threaten vested interests in existing theory. My article criticized models o…
Slum Housing
Slum Housing
Migration within the U.S., 1800–1960
The pioneers' trek across the land has long been taken as a central element in American social history. But that redistribution of resources has been no less vital in fueling the advance of productivity, in supporting the varying pattern of final outputs. Because migration both caused, and was a consequence of, these massive changes there has long been an interest in measuring the scope and detail of population redistribution
United States Transport Advance and Externalities
Is a railroad like a toy wind-up set, the locomotive moving endlessly, stupefyingly around a single circle of track? Or, as I believe, is it more like a fancy set, with various sidings, and connecting routes? Professor Weiss assumes that the carrying capacity of a railroad is bounded by its ability to store all its freight cars on the main line. And the view he (somewhat incorrectly) attributes to me—that “for every starting point there are 10 mi…
United States Transport Advance and Externalities
What role the railroad played and how changes in transportstimulated American economic advance, while puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. And such questions never lacked for conjecture. But recent studies have given a rigorous and brilliant cast to that inquiry, if not a totally novel one. An older tradition was shaped by the historian's desire to see economic change “as it was,” by his recognition that every happening was indispen…
Manpower in Economic Growth
Manpower in Economic Growth
Trends in Natural Resource Commodities
Measuring Unemployment
Wage Structures
Definitions of Economic Terms in the Dictionary of Sociology
The Dictionary of Sociology essays "authoritative" definition of some hundreds of sociological terms and a small number of economic terms. The definitions of most economic terms are adversely criticized: first, they were framed by sociologists who apparently are unfamiliar with current economic usage; second, the Dictionary has lost sight of the function of operational definition. The result is that, while some of the definitions are antiquated, …
The Demand for Land
The demand for land in the United States was shaped by inherited attitudes and modern asset creation. Immigrants inherited the view that landowners had an enhanced chance of survival in a "starving time." But the United States farmer also found that by clearing his unimproved acres he could create assets from otherwise idle time between seasonal peaks in the use of family labor. Public land sales in the South from 1820 to 1860 correlate well with…
The Returns to U.S. Imperialism, 1890–1929
The paper focuses on U.S. foreign investment. Part I notes its trivial impact on returns to U.S. capital and considers its greater importance for five industry groups. Part II reviews the economic advantages accruing to U.S. citizens from interventions in Panama and Cuba. Part III, the bulk of the paper, asks what impact U.S. foreign investment had on Latin American factor returns. It finds no evidence in the anti-imperialist literature for the a…
United States Transport Advance and Externalities
What role the railroad played and how changes in transportstimulated American economic advance, while puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. And such questions never lacked for conjecture. But recent studies have given a rigorous and brilliant cast to that inquiry, if not a totally novel one. An older tradition was shaped by the historian's desire to see economic change “as it was,” by his recognition that every happening was indispen…
Through the Blockade
Although cotton smuggling through the North's blockade of the South during the American Civil War has often been viewed as a highly profitable activity, only a small percentage of blockade-running ships made more than one run. New figures for capture rates reconcile these observations by showing that the risks of blockade running were substantial. Estimates are also provided for the amount of cotton smuggled through the blockade and of its dispos…
Migration within the U.S., 1800–1960
The pioneers' trek across the land has long been taken as a central element in American social history. But that redistribution of resources has been no less vital in fueling the advance of productivity, in supporting the varying pattern of final outputs. Because migration both caused, and was a consequence of, these massive changes there has long been an interest in measuring the scope and detail of population redistribution
Why the South Lost
Journal Article Why the South Lost: Commercial Purpose in the Confederacy, 1861–1865 Get access Stanley Lebergott Stanley Lebergott professor of economics Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, Pages 58–74, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890521 Published: 01 June 1983
Are The Rich Getting Richer? Trends in U.S. Wealth Concentration
When tested against U.S. evidence back to the nineteenth century a straight-forward model of wealth accumulation contradicts the belief that “the rich are getting richer.” If the wealth owned by the top 1 percent of American families in 1922 had earned only a modest 8 percent yearly until 1953 then they (or their heirs) would have owned 98 percent of personal wealth—instead of an actual share of 28 percent. The erosion of top wealth groups also a…
Time on the Cross
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
United States Transport Advance and Externalities
Is a railroad like a toy wind-up set, the locomotive moving endlessly, stupefyingly around a single circle of track? Or, as I believe, is it more like a fancy set, with various sidings, and connecting routes? Professor Weiss assumes that the carrying capacity of a railroad is bounded by its ability to store all its freight cars on the main line. And the view he (somewhat incorrectly) attributes to me—that “for every starting point there are 10 mi…
Definitions of Economic Terms in the Dictionary of Sociology
The Dictionary of Sociology essays "authoritative" definition of some hundreds of sociological terms and a small number of economic terms. The definitions of most economic terms are adversely criticized: first, they were framed by sociologists who apparently are unfamiliar with current economic usage; second, the Dictionary has lost sight of the function of operational definition. The result is that, while some of the definitions are antiquated, …
Wage Structures
Measuring Unemployment
Manpower in Economic Growth
Manpower in Economic Growth
Trends in Natural Resource Commodities
United States Transport Advance and Externalities
What role the railroad played and how changes in transportstimulated American economic advance, while puzzling questions, are not beyond all conjecture. And such questions never lacked for conjecture. But recent studies have given a rigorous and brilliant cast to that inquiry, if not a totally novel one. An older tradition was shaped by the historian's desire to see economic change “as it was,” by his recognition that every happening was indispen…
United States Transport Advance and Externalities
Is a railroad like a toy wind-up set, the locomotive moving endlessly, stupefyingly around a single circle of track? Or, as I believe, is it more like a fancy set, with various sidings, and connecting routes? Professor Weiss assumes that the carrying capacity of a railroad is bounded by its ability to store all its freight cars on the main line. And the view he (somewhat incorrectly) attributes to me—that “for every starting point there are 10 mi…
Slum Housing
Migration within the U.S., 1800–1960
The pioneers' trek across the land has long been taken as a central element in American social history. But that redistribution of resources has been no less vital in fueling the advance of productivity, in supporting the varying pattern of final outputs. Because migration both caused, and was a consequence of, these massive changes there has long been an interest in measuring the scope and detail of population redistribution
Slum Housing
A New Technique for Time Series? A Comment
characterize Solow's review as ad Iominem in larger design of his article, suggesting certain frivolity of purpose; (4) to defend his (Galbraith's) scholarship as perhaps not superior to Solow's but adequate; and, finally, (5) to suggest that Solow's personal interest in existing economic theory perhaps blinds Solow to new insights (such as The New Industrial State) that threaten vested interests in existing theory. My article criticized models o…
A Reply to Harold G. Vatter
Time on the Cross
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Are The Rich Getting Richer? Trends in U.S. Wealth Concentration
When tested against U.S. evidence back to the nineteenth century a straight-forward model of wealth accumulation contradicts the belief that “the rich are getting richer.” If the wealth owned by the top 1 percent of American families in 1922 had earned only a modest 8 percent yearly until 1953 then they (or their heirs) would have owned 98 percent of personal wealth—instead of an actual share of 28 percent. The erosion of top wealth groups also a…
The American Economy
Parameters and Policies in the U.S. Economy
Journal Article Parameters and Policies in the U.S. Economy Get access Parameters and Policies in the U.S. Economy. Edited by Otto Eckstein. (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1976. Pp. viii + 389. 838.50. Dfl. 100.00.) Stanley Lebergott Stanley Lebergott Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 87, Issue 348, 1 December 1977, Pages 804…
The American Economy
The Returns to U.S. Imperialism, 1890–1929
The paper focuses on U.S. foreign investment. Part I notes its trivial impact on returns to U.S. capital and considers its greater importance for five industry groups. Part II reviews the economic advantages accruing to U.S. citizens from interventions in Panama and Cuba. Part III, the bulk of the paper, asks what impact U.S. foreign investment had on Latin American factor returns. It finds no evidence in the anti-imperialist literature for the a…
Through the Blockade
Although cotton smuggling through the North's blockade of the South during the American Civil War has often been viewed as a highly profitable activity, only a small percentage of blockade-running ships made more than one run. New figures for capture rates reconcile these observations by showing that the risks of blockade running were substantial. Estimates are also provided for the amount of cotton smuggled through the blockade and of its dispos…
Why the South Lost
Journal Article Why the South Lost: Commercial Purpose in the Confederacy, 1861–1865 Get access Stanley Lebergott Stanley Lebergott professor of economics Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 70, Issue 1, June 1983, Pages 58–74, https://doi.org/10.2307/1890521 Published: 01 June 1983
The Americans
Journal Article The Americans: An Economic Record. By Stanley Lebergott. (New York: Norton, 1984. xvii + 541 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, and index. $24.95.) Get access W. Elliot Brownlee W. Elliot Brownlee University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 72, Issue 3, December 1985, Page 719, https://doi.org/10.2307/1904369 Published: 01 …
The Demand for Land
The demand for land in the United States was shaped by inherited attitudes and modern asset creation. Immigrants inherited the view that landowners had an enhanced chance of survival in a "starving time." But the United States farmer also found that by clearing his unimproved acres he could create assets from otherwise idle time between seasonal peaks in the use of family labor. Public land sales in the South from 1820 to 1860 correlate well with…
The Americans
Pursuing Happiness
Economics (18 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works)