Gavin Wright
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3586465 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gavin Wright |
| PRENOMES | Gavin |
| SOBRENOME | Wright |
| ASSINATURA | WRIGHT G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Stanford University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1936-1159 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 79 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 209 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1971 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy
The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists, the proposition fails under rigorous historical scrutiny. The slave South discouraged immigration, underinvested in transportation infrastructure, and failed to educate the majority of its population. It is not even clear that the region produced more cotton than it wo…
Ryan A. Quintana. Making a Slave State
In Making a Slave State: Political Development in Early South Carolina, Ryan A. Quintana describes the role of slaves and slave labor in building the state of South Carolina, from the eighteenth century colonial era to the internal-improvements boom following the War of 1812. In the beginnings, the primary focus of infrastructure construction was security: against the Spanish, against the Indians, and even (the irony duly noted) against the slave…
Slavery and Anglo-American capitalism revisited
British and American debates on the relationship between slavery and economic growth have had little interaction with each other. This article attempts intellectual arbitrage by joining these two literatures. The linkage turns on the neglected part two of the 'Williams thesis': that slavery and the slave trade, once vital for the expansion of British industry and commerce, were no longer needed by the nineteenth century. In contrast to recent ass…
Daniel Amsterdam. Roaring Metropolis
In Roaring Metropolis: Businessmen’s Campaign for a Civic Welfare State, historian Daniel Amsterdam seeks to augment the literature on welfare capitalism during the 1920s by recounting the role of business elites in campaigns for civic betterment in three cities: Detroit, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. The book is largely non-quantitative, consisting mainly of detailed political histories, drawing upon extensive archival sources. The central theme is…
Economic History, Quantitative
Race, region, and the new deal
Fear Itself is a masterful exercise in drawing historical connections. Ira Katznelson connects American social and economic policies during the 1930s and 1940s to the global Great Depression, to th
Title VII in Economic-Historical Perspective
Research Article| September 01 2014 Title VII in Economic-Historical Perspective Gavin Wright Gavin Wright Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2014) 11 (3): 37–41. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-2687664 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Gavin Wright; Title VII in Economic-Historical Perspective. Labor 1 September 2014; 11 (3): 37–41. doi: https://doi.o…
The Japanese Economy in Retrospect
The Japanese Economy in Retrospect
Gary R Saxonhouse was one of the leading world scholars on Japanese economy. Born in New York City in 1943, he attended Yale University, where he received his PhD in Economics in 1971. He joined the Faculty of Economics at the University of Michigan beginning in 1970, where he taught throughout his career. The selection of his published papers that comprises this two-volume publication is a testimony and tribute to his remarkable accomplishments …
Japanese Economy in Retrospect
National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms
Using the records of British firms that supplied nearly 90 percent of world trade in cotton spinning machinery, we track the evolution and diffusion of spinning technology over more than 50 years. In contrast to scenarios in which modern technologies supplant older methods, we observe two paradigms in competitive coexistence, each one supporting ongoing productivity growth through complementary improvements in machinery, organization, and workfor…
Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America
Book Review| April 01 2008 Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831–1852 Slave Agriculture and Financial Markets in Antebellum America: The Bank of the United States in Mississippi, 1831-1852. Richard Holcombe Kilbourne Jr.. Gavin Wright Gavin Wright Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (2): 262–263. https://doi.org/10.121…
Labor History Symposium
PAUL D. MORENO Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 2005 ISBN: 080713094X With this book, Paul Moreno has made a significant and contentious contribution to the literature on labor and ra
Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush
Why Economies Slow
(2004). WHY ECONOMIES SLOW: The Myth of the Resource Curse. Challenge: Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 6-38.
Slavery and American Agricultural History
This essay considers the role of slavery in American agricultural history by examining the impact of political decisions during the period when the boundary between free and slave states was not yet settled. This boundary was not dictated by geographic imperatives. In Kentucky, an early beach-head in the bluegrass district allowed slavery to become firmly entrenched, even in a state where the majority of farmers held no slaves. On the other hand,…
Schools of Thought
Schools of Thought brings together a cast of prominent scholars to assess, with unprecedented breadth and vigor, the intellectual revolution over the past quarter century in the social sciences. This collection of twenty essays stems from a 1997 conference that celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Institute for Advanced Study's School of Social Science. The authors, who represent a wide range of disciplines, are all associated with the …
Session 5a
A marked acceleration of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in U.S. manufacturing followed World War I. The paper analyzes this development, attributing it to the confluence of diffusion of a general-purpose-technology (electrification) with a regime change in the industrial labor market
Session 5a
In Memoriam Moses Abramovitz 1912–2000
It is with much sadness that we bring news of the passing of Moses Abramovitz, our esteemed colleague and dear friend, who died on 1 December at the Stanford University Hospital, just a month before reaching his eighty-ninth birthday. He had been hospitalized with a gastroenterological condition for one week, during most of which time he remained alert and conversational; then succumbed to a sudden, unexpected infection
Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy
In Memoriam
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The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History
This address urges Americanists to take the post–World War II era on board as economic history, using the Civil Rights Revolution to set an example. The speed and sweepof the movement's success illustrates the dynamics of an “unanticipated revolution” as analyzed by Timur Kuran, to be grouped with famous historical surprises such as the triumph of British antislavery and the fall of Soviet communism. The evidence confirms that the breakthroughs o…
Les Fondements Historiques de la Domination Economique Américaine
La prééminence économique des États-Unis est l'un des traits marquants de l'histoire mondiale du 20esiècle. La domination américaine a été si nette et si évidente qu'elle semble souvent ne requérir aucune explication. L'historien Paul Kennedy écrit quant à lui, dans son étude très appréciée,The Rise and the Fall of the Great Powers:Les États-Unis semblaient possédertousles avantages économiques dontcertainesautres puissances détenaient unepartie,…
Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance
The USA became the world's leading mineral-producing nation between 1870 and 1910, a development paralleled by the rising resource-intensity of American manufacturing. This paper challenges the premise that resource abundance simply reflected the country's geological endowment of mineral deposits. Instead, in the century following 1850 the USA exploited its natural resource potentials to a far greater extent than other countries, and did so acros…
Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century
Why Did “Uncle Remus” exhort the post-bellum South to reduce its cotton-growing in favor of corn? His complaint was prompted in the immediate sense by the low cotton prices of the early 1890's, but such comments reflected a continuing discontent over the region's abandonment of self-sufficiency in foods after the Civil War. The ratio of cotton output to com was probably at an antebellum peak in 1860, but this ratio had been easily exceeded by 188…
New Evidence on the Stubborn English Mule and the Cotton Industry, 1878-1920
W ~hy was the English cotton industry so much slower than the rest of the world to make the switch from mules to ring-frame spinning? This paper presents new evidence on this hardy historical question by drawing on the records of six textile machinery companies. These records are now available at the Lancashire Record Office in Preston. The new figures show that Lancashire's commitment to mule-spinning prior to World War I was indeed overwhelming…
The Civil Rights Revolution as Economic History
This address urges Americanists to take the post–World War II era on board as economic history, using the Civil Rights Revolution to set an example. The speed and sweepof the movement's success illustrates the dynamics of an “unanticipated revolution” as analyzed by Timur Kuran, to be grouped with famous historical surprises such as the triumph of British antislavery and the fall of Soviet communism. The evidence confirms that the breakthroughs o…
Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South
As evidence has accumulated on the prosperity of the American South under slavery prior to the Civil War, attention has turned to a search for explanations for the apparent stagnation of the southern economy after the Civil War. One class of explanations involves the argument that the South experienced special difficulties in recovering her place in the international cotton market during the late 1860's and 1870's. In one version of this hypothes…
Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush
The Question of Discrimination
Freedom and the Southern economy
Slavery and the cotton boom
The Economic Revolution in the American South
As recently as twenty-five years ago, regional economic backwardness in the states of the traditional American South was considered an intractable problem of continuing national concern. Obviously, much has changed since then. The modern period of economic convergence for the South only began in earnest when the institutional foundations of its regional labor market were undermined, largely by federal farm and labor legislation dating from the 19…
The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves
Slavery and Anglo-American capitalism revisited
British and American debates on the relationship between slavery and economic growth have had little interaction with each other. This article attempts intellectual arbitrage by joining these two literatures. The linkage turns on the neglected part two of the 'Williams thesis': that slavery and the slave trade, once vital for the expansion of British industry and commerce, were no longer needed by the nineteenth century. In contrast to recent ass…
Towards a More Historical Approach to Technological Change
An economic historian does not get far in trying to interpret the comparative performance of national economies, without confronting issues surrounding the conceptualisation and measurement of technology. Thus I have found myself in recent years wrestling with the historical phenomenon known as 'American technological leadership', and this research experience has generated some views on more general matters. Vernon Ruttan's assessment of the curr…
National Leadership and Competing Technological Paradigms
Using the records of British firms that supplied nearly 90 percent of world trade in cotton spinning machinery, we track the evolution and diffusion of spinning technology over more than 50 years. In contrast to scenarios in which modern technologies supplant older methods, we observe two paradigms in competitive coexistence, each one supporting ongoing productivity growth through complementary improvements in machinery, organization, and workfor…
Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century
Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy
The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists, the proposition fails under rigorous historical scrutiny. The slave South discouraged immigration, underinvested in transportation infrastructure, and failed to educate the majority of its population. It is not even clear that the region produced more cotton than it wo…
Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles before 1880
Labor costs historically have been decisive in determining the location of cotton textile production. Despite an apparent advantage in wage rates, however, the southern industry did not achievesustainedrelative progress before about 1875. This study argues that in most times and places the region did not have "cheap labor" before this date. What matters is not just the level of wages in any year, but the quality of labor attracted at this wage an…
Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860
Journal Article Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xvi + 168 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Gavin Wright Gavin Wright University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 154–155,…
Reflections on One Kind of Freedom and the Southern Economy
The Strange Career of the New Southern Economic History
The new works on postwar Southern development . divide into two basic theoretical approaches: those historians who follow Fogel and Engerman apply neoclassical economic theory and analyze Southem development according to the laws of the market; those who follow Genovese and C. Vann Woodward analyze the South in terms of its constituent classes and see its development as the outcome of conflicts among them. Although these schools by no means exhau…
Stubborn Mules and Vertical Integration
Night work as a labor market phenomenon
Slavery and American Agricultural History
This essay considers the role of slavery in American agricultural history by examining the impact of political decisions during the period when the boundary between free and slave states was not yet settled. This boundary was not dictated by geographic imperatives. In Kentucky, an early beach-head in the bluegrass district allowed slavery to become firmly entrenched, even in a state where the majority of farmers held no slaves. On the other hand,…
Capitalism and Slavery on the Islands
Gavin Wright, Capitalism and Slavery on the Islands: A Lesson from the Mainland, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 17, No. 4, Caribbean Slavery and British Capitalism (Spring, 1987), pp. 851-870
World Demand for Cotton during the Nineteenth Century
Since writing “Cotton Competition,“ I have many times wished that I had never included the paragraph joining pages 632 and 633, since figures that were intended as no more than back-of-the-envelope confirmation of the econometric results have been cited as the central conclusions of the study. To make matters worse, the demand-shift formula was incorrectly applied, most seriously in the exaggerated decline in demand for American cotton between 18…
Reckoning with Slavery
Journal Article Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. By Paul A. David, Herbert G. Gutman, Richard Sutch, Peter Temin, and Gavin Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xvi + 398 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical references, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.50.) Get access Harold D. Woodman Harold D. Woodman Purdue University Search for other works by this author …
An Econometric Study of Cotton Production and Trade, 1830-1860
The Effects of Pre-Civil War Territorial Expansion on the Price of Slaves
Comment on Papers by Reid, Ransom and Sutch, and Higgs
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New and Old Views on the Economics of Slavery
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The Political Economy of New Deal Spending
T HE New Deal years offer a laboratory for testing the hypothesis that political behavior a democracy can be understood as a rational effort to maximize the prospects of electoral success. This hypothesis is central to the theories of politics developed and elaborated since the publication of Downs' An Economic Theory of Democracy 1957, but systematic empirical verification has been meager.' One of the reasons for this paucity is that the United …
Cotton Competition and the Post-Bellum Recovery of the American South
As evidence has accumulated on the prosperity of the American South under slavery prior to the Civil War, attention has turned to a search for explanations for the apparent stagnation of the southern economy after the Civil War. One class of explanations involves the argument that the South experienced special difficulties in recovering her place in the international cotton market during the late 1860's and 1870's. In one version of this hypothes…
Dissertation Comments
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Cotton, Corn and Risk in the Nineteenth Century
Why Did “Uncle Remus” exhort the post-bellum South to reduce its cotton-growing in favor of corn? His complaint was prompted in the immediate sense by the low cotton prices of the early 1890's, but such comments reflected a continuing discontent over the region's abandonment of self-sufficiency in foods after the Civil War. The ratio of cotton output to com was probably at an antebellum peak in 1860, but this ratio had been easily exceeded by 188…
Slavery and the cotton boom
Cliometrics in Ohio
Late Nineteenth Century American Development
Cotton, corn, and risk in the nineteenth century
Reckoning with Slavery
Reckoning with Slavery
Journal Article Reckoning with Slavery: A Critical Study in the Quantitative History of American Negro Slavery. By Paul A. David, Herbert G. Gutman, Richard Sutch, Peter Temin, and Gavin Wright. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976. xvi + 398 pp. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical references, and index. Cloth, $15.00; paper, $4.50.) Get access Harold D. Woodman Harold D. Woodman Purdue University Search for other works by this author …
Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820-1860
Journal Article Urban Slavery in the American South, 1820–1860: A Quantitative History. By Claudia Dale Goldin. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976. xvi + 168 pp. Map, charts, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index. $12.95.) Get access Gavin Wright Gavin Wright University of Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 64, Issue 1, June 1977, Pages 154–155,…
Reckoning with Slavery
Quantifying Slavery and the Slave Trade
The Political Economy of the Cotton South
World Demand for Cotton during the Nineteenth Century
Since writing “Cotton Competition,“ I have many times wished that I had never included the paragraph joining pages 632 and 633, since figures that were intended as no more than back-of-the-envelope confirmation of the econometric results have been cited as the central conclusions of the study. To make matters worse, the demand-shift formula was incorrectly applied, most seriously in the exaggerated decline in demand for American cotton between 18…
The Political Economy of the Cotton South
Journal Article The Political Economy of the Cotton South: Households, Markets, and Wealth in the Nineteenth Century. By Gavin Wright. (New York: Norton, 1978. xv + 205 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, and index. $10.95.) Get access Robert Higgs Robert Higgs University of Washington Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 66, Issue 1, June 1979, Page 153, https://d…
Freedom and the Southern economy
Cheap Labor and Southern Textiles before 1880
Labor costs historically have been decisive in determining the location of cotton textile production. Despite an apparent advantage in wage rates, however, the southern industry did not achievesustainedrelative progress before about 1875. This study argues that in most times and places the region did not have "cheap labor" before this date. What matters is not just the level of wages in any year, but the quality of labor attracted at this wage an…
The Political Economy of the Cotton South
The Political Economy of the Cotton South
The Political Economy of the Cotton South
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