Robert A Mcguire
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 355798 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert A Mcguire |
| PRENOMES | Robert A |
| SOBRENOME | Mcguire |
| ASSINATURA | MCGUIRE R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Akron |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 159 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Disease, Plantation Development, and Race-Related Differences in Fertility in the Early Twentieth-Century American South
A multiple causes perspective contends that economic development and poor health contributed to early 20th-century southern race-related differences in fertility. The authors link the 1910 IPUMS to the 1916 Plantation Census (1909 data), southern disease (malaria and hookworm), and sanitation indicators to examine fertility differentials, while accounting for child mortality (an endogenous demographic control). They find that African-American and…
Fertility, Economic Development, and Health in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. South
Between 1880 and 1910, fertility among African-American women dropped more precipitously than among white women, although black women’s sociodemographic profile generally would not have predicted that trend. According to one perspective, regional differences in the timing of voluntary fertility control accounted for discrepancies by race. According to another, poor southern maternal health disproportionately affected African-American women’s fecu…
Extending Public Health
The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (1909–1914) fielded a philanthropic public health project that had three goals: to estimate hookworm prevalence in the American South, provide treatment, and eradicate the disease. Activities covered 11 Southern states, and Rockefeller teams found that about 40% of the population surveyed was infected. However, the commission met strong resistance and lacked the time and …
Demography, Disease, and Development
Emphasising the impact of diseases on history, the essay integrates demography, economics, evolutionary theory, and microbiology to explain the historical development of humanity and the economy, with specific application to American economic development prior to the twentieth century. The cultural development of prehistoric humanity is explained with simple demography in which the blooming of Paleolithic culture about 50,000 years ago also induc…
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and American history. In Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress, Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho integrate biological and economic perspectives into an explanation of the historical development of humanity and the economy, paying particular attention to the American experience, its history and development. In their path-breaking examination of the impact of popula…
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities
Journal Article Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities: Intestinal Worm Infections in the Early Twentieth-Century American South Get access Philip R. P. Coelho, Philip R. P. Coelho *Department of Economics, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
A Supply and Demand Exposition of a Constitutional Tax Loophole
Diets Versus Diseases
What were the living standards of American slaves? According to Robert W. Fogel and Stanley Engerman in their monumental study, Time on the Cross, the material standard of living of slaves compared favorably with that of other nineteenth-century agricultural laborers. More recently, utilizing anthropometric data that allow them to construct ageheight profiles for slaves, economic historians have cast doubts upon this view as it applies to particu…
Biology, Diseases, and Economics
African and European Bound Labor in the British New World
This article offers an explanation for the regional differences in the use of African and European bound labor in colonial America. The migrations of Africans and Europeans to the Americas set in motion an evolutionary process that caused regional changes in the disease ecology of the New World. Biological and epidemiological differences among populations explain the different regional labor supply choices. This article emphasizes the interaction…
The Political Economy of the Family Farm
Journal Article The Political Economy of the Family Farm: The Agrarian Roots of American Capitalism. By Sue Headlee. (New York: Praeger, 1991. xvi + 212 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-275-93806-9.) Get access Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1609–1610, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080267 Published: 01 …
More on the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service
Deflation-Induced Increases in Post-Civil War US Tariffs
A consensus exists among economic historians that US tariffs, which increased dramatically during the Civil War, remained high during the remainder of the nineteenth century.' The overall level of formal (legislated) import duties at the end of the nineteenth century was probably higher than the level of formal duties immediately following the Civil War. In fact, the only reduction in formal import duties, an across-the-board i0 per cent decrease…
Regions
Journal Article Regions: The Economics and Politics of Territory. By Ann Markusen. (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1987. xv + 304 pp. $37.50.) Get access Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 903–904, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901569 Published: 01 December 1988
Constitution Making
This study offers a theoretical and statistical analysis of the voting behavior of the delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention. The theoretical paradigm employed is rational choice, a model in which individuals are viewed as expected utility maximizers. Logit analysis is used to test the model empirically. Sixteen different roll calls are investigated. The empirical results suggest that the Founding Fathers may have voted both th…
The determinants of the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service
Agricultural Legacies
Journal Article Agricultural Legacies: Essays in Honor of Gilbert C. Fite. Ed. by R. Alton Lee. (Vermillion: University of South Dakota Press, 1986. xv + 283 pp. $12.95.) Get access Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire Economics Board, University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1037–1038, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
An Economic Model of Voting Behaviour over Specific Issues at the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Despite hundreds of studies of the influence of economic interests on the formation of the U.S. Constitution, no consensus has been reached. Our study of the Constitutional Convention differs from previous ones by offering an explicit theoretical model of delegates' voting behavior and employing multivariate statistical techniques. We extend our earlier work by analyzing new information on constituents' economic interests and ideology. Further ou…
Independence and Empire
Public versus private economic activity
Economic Interests and the American Constitution
An important change in the structure of U.S. institutions occurred when the government under the Articles of Confederation was replaced by a new government under the Constitution. In 1913, Charles A. Beard proposed a view of the formation of the United States Constitution—an economic interpretation—that remains a much discussed yet unresolved explanation of the behavior and motives of the men who wrote the document. This paper provides the first …
Economic Causes of Late Nineteenth-Century Agrarian Unrest
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
Economic Causes of Late-Nineteenth Century Agrarian Unrest
Several economic historians have suggested that economic instability in American agriculture was a primary cause of agrarian discontent during the late nineteenth century. This paper, in providing a rigorous analysis of the issue, presents estimates of economic instability in agriculture and evidence on the location and intensity of agrarian unrest for 14 northern states from 1866 to 1909. I statistically test for a relationship between the two. …
A portfolio analysis of crop diversification and risk in the cotton south
Regions
Journal Article Regions: The Economics and Politics of Territory. By Ann Markusen. (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1987. xv + 304 pp. $37.50.) Get access Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 903–904, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901569 Published: 01 December 1988
The determinants of the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service
Constitution Making
This study offers a theoretical and statistical analysis of the voting behavior of the delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention. The theoretical paradigm employed is rational choice, a model in which individuals are viewed as expected utility maximizers. Logit analysis is used to test the model empirically. Sixteen different roll calls are investigated. The empirical results suggest that the Founding Fathers may have voted both th…
Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century
Economic Causes of Late-Nineteenth Century Agrarian Unrest
Several economic historians have suggested that economic instability in American agriculture was a primary cause of agrarian discontent during the late nineteenth century. This paper, in providing a rigorous analysis of the issue, presents estimates of economic instability in agriculture and evidence on the location and intensity of agrarian unrest for 14 northern states from 1866 to 1909. I statistically test for a relationship between the two. …
An Economic Model of Voting Behaviour over Specific Issues at the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Despite hundreds of studies of the influence of economic interests on the formation of the U.S. Constitution, no consensus has been reached. Our study of the Constitutional Convention differs from previous ones by offering an explicit theoretical model of delegates' voting behavior and employing multivariate statistical techniques. We extend our earlier work by analyzing new information on constituents' economic interests and ideology. Further ou…
Economic Interests and the American Constitution
An important change in the structure of U.S. institutions occurred when the government under the Articles of Confederation was replaced by a new government under the Constitution. In 1913, Charles A. Beard proposed a view of the formation of the United States Constitution—an economic interpretation—that remains a much discussed yet unresolved explanation of the behavior and motives of the men who wrote the document. This paper provides the first …
Diets Versus Diseases
What were the living standards of American slaves? According to Robert W. Fogel and Stanley Engerman in their monumental study, Time on the Cross, the material standard of living of slaves compared favorably with that of other nineteenth-century agricultural laborers. More recently, utilizing anthropometric data that allow them to construct ageheight profiles for slaves, economic historians have cast doubts upon this view as it applies to particu…
African and European Bound Labor in the British New World
This article offers an explanation for the regional differences in the use of African and European bound labor in colonial America. The migrations of Africans and Europeans to the Americas set in motion an evolutionary process that caused regional changes in the disease ecology of the New World. Biological and epidemiological differences among populations explain the different regional labor supply choices. This article emphasizes the interaction…
A portfolio analysis of crop diversification and risk in the cotton south
Biology, Diseases, and Economics
Public versus private economic activity
Disease, Plantation Development, and Race-Related Differences in Fertility in the Early Twentieth-Century American South
A multiple causes perspective contends that economic development and poor health contributed to early 20th-century southern race-related differences in fertility. The authors link the 1910 IPUMS to the 1916 Plantation Census (1909 data), southern disease (malaria and hookworm), and sanitation indicators to examine fertility differentials, while accounting for child mortality (an endogenous demographic control). They find that African-American and…
Extending Public Health
The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (1909–1914) fielded a philanthropic public health project that had three goals: to estimate hookworm prevalence in the American South, provide treatment, and eradicate the disease. Activities covered 11 Southern states, and Rockefeller teams found that about 40% of the population surveyed was infected. However, the commission met strong resistance and lacked the time and …
Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities
Journal Article Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities: Intestinal Worm Infections in the Early Twentieth-Century American South Get access Philip R. P. Coelho, Philip R. P. Coelho *Department of Economics, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
A Supply and Demand Exposition of a Constitutional Tax Loophole
More on the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service
Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century
A portfolio analysis of crop diversification and risk in the cotton south
Economic Causes of Late-Nineteenth Century Agrarian Unrest
Several economic historians have suggested that economic instability in American agriculture was a primary cause of agrarian discontent during the late nineteenth century. This paper, in providing a rigorous analysis of the issue, presents estimates of economic instability in agriculture and evidence on the location and intensity of agrarian unrest for 14 northern states from 1866 to 1909. I statistically test for a relationship between the two. …
Economic Causes of Late Nineteenth-Century Agrarian Unrest
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
Public versus private economic activity
Economic Interests and the American Constitution
An important change in the structure of U.S. institutions occurred when the government under the Articles of Confederation was replaced by a new government under the Constitution. In 1913, Charles A. Beard proposed a view of the formation of the United States Constitution—an economic interpretation—that remains a much discussed yet unresolved explanation of the behavior and motives of the men who wrote the document. This paper provides the first …
Independence and Empire
An Economic Model of Voting Behaviour over Specific Issues at the Constitutional Convention of 1787
Despite hundreds of studies of the influence of economic interests on the formation of the U.S. Constitution, no consensus has been reached. Our study of the Constitutional Convention differs from previous ones by offering an explicit theoretical model of delegates' voting behavior and employing multivariate statistical techniques. We extend our earlier work by analyzing new information on constituents' economic interests and ideology. Further ou…
The determinants of the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service
Agricultural Legacies
Journal Article Agricultural Legacies: Essays in Honor of Gilbert C. Fite. Ed. by R. Alton Lee. (Vermillion: University of South Dakota Press, 1986. xv + 283 pp. $12.95.) Get access Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire Economics Board, University of California, Santa Cruz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 74, Issue 3, December 1987, Pages 1037–1038, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Regions
Journal Article Regions: The Economics and Politics of Territory. By Ann Markusen. (Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield, 1987. xv + 304 pp. $37.50.) Get access Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire University of California, Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 75, Issue 3, December 1988, Pages 903–904, https://doi.org/10.2307/1901569 Published: 01 December 1988
Constitution Making
This study offers a theoretical and statistical analysis of the voting behavior of the delegates to the United States Constitutional Convention. The theoretical paradigm employed is rational choice, a model in which individuals are viewed as expected utility maximizers. Logit analysis is used to test the model empirically. Sixteen different roll calls are investigated. The empirical results suggest that the Founding Fathers may have voted both th…
More on the choice between public and private production of a publicly funded service
Deflation-Induced Increases in Post-Civil War US Tariffs
A consensus exists among economic historians that US tariffs, which increased dramatically during the Civil War, remained high during the remainder of the nineteenth century.' The overall level of formal (legislated) import duties at the end of the nineteenth century was probably higher than the level of formal duties immediately following the Civil War. In fact, the only reduction in formal import duties, an across-the-board i0 per cent decrease…
The Political Economy of the Family Farm
Journal Article The Political Economy of the Family Farm: The Agrarian Roots of American Capitalism. By Sue Headlee. (New York: Praeger, 1991. xvi + 212 pp. $42.95, ISBN 0-275-93806-9.) Get access Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1609–1610, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080267 Published: 01 …
African and European Bound Labor in the British New World
This article offers an explanation for the regional differences in the use of African and European bound labor in colonial America. The migrations of Africans and Europeans to the Americas set in motion an evolutionary process that caused regional changes in the disease ecology of the New World. Biological and epidemiological differences among populations explain the different regional labor supply choices. This article emphasizes the interaction…
Biology, Diseases, and Economics
Diets Versus Diseases
What were the living standards of American slaves? According to Robert W. Fogel and Stanley Engerman in their monumental study, Time on the Cross, the material standard of living of slaves compared favorably with that of other nineteenth-century agricultural laborers. More recently, utilizing anthropometric data that allow them to construct ageheight profiles for slaves, economic historians have cast doubts upon this view as it applies to particu…
A Supply and Demand Exposition of a Constitutional Tax Loophole
Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities
Journal Article Racial Differences in Disease Susceptibilities: Intestinal Worm Infections in the Early Twentieth-Century American South Get access Philip R. P. Coelho, Philip R. P. Coelho *Department of Economics, Ball State University, Muncie, IN 47306, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Robert A. McGuire Robert A. McGuire Search for other works by this author on: Oxfo…
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
The crucial role played by diseases in economic progress, the growth of civilizations, and American history. In Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress, Robert McGuire and Philip Coelho integrate biological and economic perspectives into an explanation of the historical development of humanity and the economy, paying particular attention to the American experience, its history and development. In their path-breaking examination of the impact of popula…
Parasites, Pathogens, and Progress
Demography, Disease, and Development
Emphasising the impact of diseases on history, the essay integrates demography, economics, evolutionary theory, and microbiology to explain the historical development of humanity and the economy, with specific application to American economic development prior to the twentieth century. The cultural development of prehistoric humanity is explained with simple demography in which the blooming of Paleolithic culture about 50,000 years ago also induc…
Extending Public Health
The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission for the Eradication of Hookworm Disease (1909–1914) fielded a philanthropic public health project that had three goals: to estimate hookworm prevalence in the American South, provide treatment, and eradicate the disease. Activities covered 11 Southern states, and Rockefeller teams found that about 40% of the population surveyed was infected. However, the commission met strong resistance and lacked the time and …
Fertility, Economic Development, and Health in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. South
Between 1880 and 1910, fertility among African-American women dropped more precipitously than among white women, although black women’s sociodemographic profile generally would not have predicted that trend. According to one perspective, regional differences in the timing of voluntary fertility control accounted for discrepancies by race. According to another, poor southern maternal health disproportionately affected African-American women’s fecu…
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