Frank D Lewis
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 456703 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Frank D Lewis |
| PRENOMES | Frank D |
| SOBRENOME | Lewis |
| ASSINATURA | LEWIS F D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Queen's University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 212 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Penalizing Parenthood and Perpetuating Poverty
Social safety-net policies and programs are often a double-edged sword—they provide necessary resources, but also punish poor Americans. In Wisconsin, one policy that exemplifies this pattern is Birth Cost Recovery, a state-enforced cost recovery policy through which unmarried, non-custodial fathers are required to repay Medicaid-covered delivery expenses. Supporters assert that Birth Cost Recovery promotes paternal responsibility and increases t…
Transatlantic wage gaps and the migration decision
More than profits? The contribution of the slave trade to the Dutch economy
We assess Fatah-Black and Van Rossum’s analysis of the Dutch slave trade by detailing six 1750s voyages of the Middelburg Commercial Company. The costs of transporting captives from Africa to Suriname are explored along with their relation to the Dutch economy. We also examine the implications of the concept ‘gross margin’, which is central to Fatah-Black and Van Rossum’s work. We find that, given the nature of the transport costs, the impact of …
Protecting infant industries
Smallpox and Native American mortality
Accounting for the Traffic in Africans
Relying mainly on the manuscript records of the Royal African Company, we explore the factors that contributed to the large gap between slave prices in Africa and the Caribbean. Twenty-two voyages from the mid-1680s are analyzed. These were conducted with hired ships and the payments to the shipowners and captains were recorded. In addition to transport costs, mortality and morbidity had a big effect on slave prices; while the earnings from the t…
Commerce by a Frozen Sea
Human Capital and Institutions
Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutritio…
Compensation and the abandoned property of the 1948 Palestinian refugees
Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
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Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slave prices, the African slave trade, and productivity in the Caribbean, 1674-18071
We draw wide-ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they arrived in the Americas from Africa between 1674 and 1807. Prices for the product that most slaves were destined to produce-sugar-are also available. Together the comprehensive series allow us to derive annual measures of average slave productivity and to compare productivity trends across di…
The Transition from Slavery to Freedom through Manumission
The transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas has been one of the central themes of Stanley Engerman's research. This emphasis, which characterizes much of the research on slavery over the past fifteen years, represents arguably a natural progression in the historiography of slavery. The earlier work on the United States, culminating with Time on the Cross and Without Consent or Contract , was concerned mainly with the characteristics of…
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave …
Marketing in the Land of Hudson Bay
The Hudson's Bay Company traded European goods for furs that were hunted, trapped, and brought down to the Bayside posts by Native Americans. The process of exchange was deceptively simple: furs for goods. Yet behind this simple process lies a series of decisions on the part of the company about which goods to provide, what levels of quality to provide, and what price to set. We examine the marketing strategies used by the Hudson's Bay Company an…
Trade, Consumption, and the Native Economy
Like Europeans and colonists, eighteenth-century Native Americans were purchasing a greatly expanded variety of goods. As fur prices rose from 1716 to 1770, there was a shift in expenditures from producer and household goods to tobacco, alcohol, and other luxuries by Indians who traded furs at the Hudson's Bay Company's York Factory post. A consumer behavior model, using company accounts, shows that Indians bought more European goods in response …
Growth and the Standard of Living in a Pioneer Economy
Building on the work of McCalla, McInnis and others we describe the early income of Upper Canada over the period 1826 to 1851. The Municipal Assessments, which report ownership of land, livestock and other property, allow us to develop conjectural estimates of farm income; and various Provincial Accounts help us describe the pattern of trade as well as the development of the school system. Although we find little evidence of intensive growth in t…
Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees
The Creative Financing of an Unprofitable Enterprise
Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay
Indians depleted the beaver, yet we do not understand why. We analyzed the pattern and determinants of beaver exploitation in the hinterlands of three Hudson's Bay Company posts. Simulating beaver population, we found declining beaver stock within each hinterland, but overharvesting in only two. Central to this process was the Company reaction to French competition. Managers raised prices in the Albany and York hinterlands, and in response the In…
Australia
Australia
The cost of convict transportation from Britain to Australia, 1796-1810
Government Loan Guarantees and the Failure of the Canadian Northern Railway
The failure of the Canadian Northern Railway is analyzed with a model of optimal capital structure drawn from finance theory. Ex ante bankruptcy probabilities, which are computed on the basis of different assumptions about investors' expectations, range from 40 to 90 percent; and our best estimate is about 70 percent. These high probabilities were a consequence of loan guarantees provided to the Canadian Northern by the federal and provincial gov…
The Prosperous Years
Slave prices, the African slave trade, and productivity in the Caribbean, 1674-18071
We draw wide-ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they arrived in the Americas from Africa between 1674 and 1807. Prices for the product that most slaves were destined to produce-sugar-are also available. Together the comprehensive series allow us to derive annual measures of average slave productivity and to compare productivity trends across di…
The Economic Cost of the American Civil War
We are right to see power, prestige, and confidence as conditioned by the Civil War. But it is a very easy step to regard the War, therefore, as a jolly piece of luck only slightly disguised, part of our divinely instituted success story, and to think, in some shadowy corner of the mind, of the dead at Gettysburg as a small price to pay for the development of a really satisfactory and cheap compact car with decent pick-up and road-holding capabil…
The Transition of Land to Urban Use
This paper investigates the economics of the transition of land from rural to urban use. A simple model is employed to examine the developer's problem: When and at what destiny should vacant land be developed to maximize the present value of the Land? A series of rules emerges from the analysis to the timing and density of new development. In the latter half of the paper, the rules are tested against recent Canadian experience and peform well
Accounting for the Traffic in Africans
Relying mainly on the manuscript records of the Royal African Company, we explore the factors that contributed to the large gap between slave prices in Africa and the Caribbean. Twenty-two voyages from the mid-1680s are analyzed. These were conducted with hired ships and the payments to the shipowners and captains were recorded. In addition to transport costs, mortality and morbidity had a big effect on slave prices; while the earnings from the t…
The Canadian Wheat Boom and Per Capita Income
Commerce by a Frozen Sea
Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay
Indians depleted the beaver, yet we do not understand why. We analyzed the pattern and determinants of beaver exploitation in the hinterlands of three Hudson's Bay Company posts. Simulating beaver population, we found declining beaver stock within each hinterland, but overharvesting in only two. Central to this process was the Company reaction to French competition. Managers raised prices in the Albany and York hinterlands, and in response the In…
Smallpox and Native American mortality
The cost of convict transportation from Britain to Australia, 1796-1810
Fertility and Savings in the United States
A long tradition in the development literature has been to associate the aggregate savings rate with the dependency ratio, the ratio of dependent children to adults. In this paper I formalize the relationship by developing a life-cycle model in which offspring are assets from the viewpoint of their parents. The model is used to help explain the increase in nineteenth-century U.S. savings rates. I find that between 1830 and 1900 about one-quarter …
The role of exports in American economic growth during the napoleonic wars, 1793 to 1807
Trade, Consumption, and the Native Economy
Like Europeans and colonists, eighteenth-century Native Americans were purchasing a greatly expanded variety of goods. As fur prices rose from 1716 to 1770, there was a shift in expenditures from producer and household goods to tobacco, alcohol, and other luxuries by Indians who traded furs at the Hudson's Bay Company's York Factory post. A consumer behavior model, using company accounts, shows that Indians bought more European goods in response …
The Efficiency of the French-Canadian Farmer in the Nineteenth Century
This paper examines the widely held view that the French-Canadian farmers of Lower Canada in the early nineteenth century were notably backward and inefficient. Data from the Canadian census of 1851-1852 are used to estimate agricultural output and factor inputs for a large number of parishes and townships. The estimated differential between French and English districts in total factor productivity is shown to be small and probably not significan…
Explaining the Shift of Labor from Agriculture to Industry in the United States
This paper attempts to explain the reasons for the shift of labor from agriculture in the United States from 1869 to 1899. It focuses on the effects of productivity growth in agriculture and industry, and of increases in the supply of land (safety-valve theory). A two-sector general equilibrium model is used in the analysis. Many of the results hinge on whether the economy is assumed to be open or closed to foreign trade. In order to determine th…
Protecting infant industries
Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
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
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Marketing in the Land of Hudson Bay
The Hudson's Bay Company traded European goods for furs that were hunted, trapped, and brought down to the Bayside posts by Native Americans. The process of exchange was deceptively simple: furs for goods. Yet behind this simple process lies a series of decisions on the part of the company about which goods to provide, what levels of quality to provide, and what price to set. We examine the marketing strategies used by the Hudson's Bay Company an…
Growth and the Standard of Living in a Pioneer Economy
Building on the work of McCalla, McInnis and others we describe the early income of Upper Canada over the period 1826 to 1851. The Municipal Assessments, which report ownership of land, livestock and other property, allow us to develop conjectural estimates of farm income; and various Provincial Accounts help us describe the pattern of trade as well as the development of the school system. Although we find little evidence of intensive growth in t…
The Creative Financing of an Unprofitable Enterprise
The Post-Bellum Recovery of the South and the Cost of the Civil War
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
More than profits? The contribution of the slave trade to the Dutch economy
We assess Fatah-Black and Van Rossum’s analysis of the Dutch slave trade by detailing six 1750s voyages of the Middelburg Commercial Company. The costs of transporting captives from Africa to Suriname are explored along with their relation to the Dutch economy. We also examine the implications of the concept ‘gross margin’, which is central to Fatah-Black and Van Rossum’s work. We find that, given the nature of the transport costs, the impact of …
Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees
Government Loan Guarantees and the Failure of the Canadian Northern Railway
The failure of the Canadian Northern Railway is analyzed with a model of optimal capital structure drawn from finance theory. Ex ante bankruptcy probabilities, which are computed on the basis of different assumptions about investors' expectations, range from 40 to 90 percent; and our best estimate is about 70 percent. These high probabilities were a consequence of loan guarantees provided to the Canadian Northern by the federal and provincial gov…
The Prosperous Years
The Canadian Wheat Boom and Per Capita Income
The Economic Cost of the American Civil War
We are right to see power, prestige, and confidence as conditioned by the Civil War. But it is a very easy step to regard the War, therefore, as a jolly piece of luck only slightly disguised, part of our divinely instituted success story, and to think, in some shadowy corner of the mind, of the dead at Gettysburg as a small price to pay for the development of a really satisfactory and cheap compact car with decent pick-up and road-holding capabil…
The Post-Bellum Recovery of the South and the Cost of the Civil War
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
The Transition of Land to Urban Use
This paper investigates the economics of the transition of land from rural to urban use. A simple model is employed to examine the developer's problem: When and at what destiny should vacant land be developed to maximize the present value of the Land? A series of rules emerges from the analysis to the timing and density of new development. In the latter half of the paper, the rules are tested against recent Canadian experience and peform well
Explaining the Shift of Labor from Agriculture to Industry in the United States
This paper attempts to explain the reasons for the shift of labor from agriculture in the United States from 1869 to 1899. It focuses on the effects of productivity growth in agriculture and industry, and of increases in the supply of land (safety-valve theory). A two-sector general equilibrium model is used in the analysis. Many of the results hinge on whether the economy is assumed to be open or closed to foreign trade. In order to determine th…
The role of exports in American economic growth during the napoleonic wars, 1793 to 1807
The Efficiency of the French-Canadian Farmer in the Nineteenth Century
This paper examines the widely held view that the French-Canadian farmers of Lower Canada in the early nineteenth century were notably backward and inefficient. Data from the Canadian census of 1851-1852 are used to estimate agricultural output and factor inputs for a large number of parishes and townships. The estimated differential between French and English districts in total factor productivity is shown to be small and probably not significan…
Farm Settlement on the Canadian Prairies, 1898 to 1911
This paper offers a new interpretation of Canadian Prairie settlement during the "wheat boom" period. Rather than use a Nerlovian model on which most recent work has been based, I develop a method of simulating the extension of the feasible region of cultivation: the area on which farming is profitable. The model is applied to a wheat-growing district of Saskatchewan that experienced rapid settlement from 1898 to 1911. Comparisons of the actual a…
Fertility and Savings in the United States
A long tradition in the development literature has been to associate the aggregate savings rate with the dependency ratio, the ratio of dependent children to adults. In this paper I formalize the relationship by developing a life-cycle model in which offspring are assets from the viewpoint of their parents. The model is used to help explain the increase in nineteenth-century U.S. savings rates. I find that between 1830 and 1900 about one-quarter …
The Prosperous Years
Government Loan Guarantees and the Failure of the Canadian Northern Railway
The failure of the Canadian Northern Railway is analyzed with a model of optimal capital structure drawn from finance theory. Ex ante bankruptcy probabilities, which are computed on the basis of different assumptions about investors' expectations, range from 40 to 90 percent; and our best estimate is about 70 percent. These high probabilities were a consequence of loan guarantees provided to the Canadian Northern by the federal and provincial gov…
The cost of convict transportation from Britain to Australia, 1796-1810
Australia
Australia
Indians, the Beaver, and the Bay
Indians depleted the beaver, yet we do not understand why. We analyzed the pattern and determinants of beaver exploitation in the hinterlands of three Hudson's Bay Company posts. Simulating beaver population, we found declining beaver stock within each hinterland, but overharvesting in only two. Central to this process was the Company reaction to French competition. Managers raised prices in the Albany and York hinterlands, and in response the In…
The Creative Financing of an Unprofitable Enterprise
Agricultural Property and the 1948 Palestinian Refugees
Growth and the Standard of Living in a Pioneer Economy
Building on the work of McCalla, McInnis and others we describe the early income of Upper Canada over the period 1826 to 1851. The Municipal Assessments, which report ownership of land, livestock and other property, allow us to develop conjectural estimates of farm income; and various Provincial Accounts help us describe the pattern of trade as well as the development of the school system. Although we find little evidence of intensive growth in t…
Trade, Consumption, and the Native Economy
Like Europeans and colonists, eighteenth-century Native Americans were purchasing a greatly expanded variety of goods. As fur prices rose from 1716 to 1770, there was a shift in expenditures from producer and household goods to tobacco, alcohol, and other luxuries by Indians who traded furs at the Hudson's Bay Company's York Factory post. A consumer behavior model, using company accounts, shows that Indians bought more European goods in response …
Marketing in the Land of Hudson Bay
The Hudson's Bay Company traded European goods for furs that were hunted, trapped, and brought down to the Bayside posts by Native Americans. The process of exchange was deceptively simple: furs for goods. Yet behind this simple process lies a series of decisions on the part of the company about which goods to provide, what levels of quality to provide, and what price to set. We examine the marketing strategies used by the Hudson's Bay Company an…
The Transition from Slavery to Freedom through Manumission
The transition from slavery to freedom in the Americas has been one of the central themes of Stanley Engerman's research. This emphasis, which characterizes much of the research on slavery over the past fifteen years, represents arguably a natural progression in the historiography of slavery. The earlier work on the United States, culminating with Time on the Cross and Without Consent or Contract , was concerned mainly with the characteristics of…
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave …
Slavery in the Development of the Americas
Slave prices, the African slave trade, and productivity in the Caribbean, 1674-18071
We draw wide-ranging implications about slave productivity change by making use of newly collected data on the prices paid for nearly 230,000 slaves as they arrived in the Americas from Africa between 1674 and 1807. Prices for the product that most slaves were destined to produce-sugar-are also available. Together the comprehensive series allow us to derive annual measures of average slave productivity and to compare productivity trends across di…
Slave Prices, the African Slave Trade, and Productivity in Eighteenth-Century South Carolina
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
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