Mark Stelzner
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 997247 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Mark Stelzner |
| PRENOMES | Mark |
| SOBRENOME | Stelzner |
| ASSINATURA | STELZNER M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Connecticut College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3663-5126 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Productivity Growth of Enslaved Workers
In this article, we seek to explain the increase in cotton output per enslaved worker in the United States in the decades before the Civil War. As we will see, there is considerable evidence that slave owners increased monitoring and pushed enslaved workers to labor more intensely as the antebellum period progressed. Consequently, the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States and Europe with its accelerating demand for cotton intensified…
The economic functions of extrajudicial violence in the Jim Crow South
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States
Estimating the contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century is a crucial building block to better understand the contours of nineteenth-century US economic history, and more generally, the connection between slavery and capitalism. Existing estimates only present a partial picture and are potentially problematic. In this paper, we use data on enslaved person valuations …
Monopsony and collective action in an institutional context
Recent empirical research has documented a dramatic change in government’s role in regulating employer–employee relations, a collapse in workers’ collective action, and low wage growth contributing to rising inequality. To better understand the theoretical connections between these variables, we construct a monopsony-wage-model that integrates intertemporal strategic interaction between workers and employers in the wage setting process into an in…
Growth, Consumption, and Happiness
The big cost of big medicine – calculating the rent in private healthcare
As a country, the United States spends significantly more on healthcare than other advanced industrialized countries, and Americans have comparably worse health outcomes. Both are developments of the last four decades. In this paper, we look at how change in antitrust and patent law and thus change in market power in the largest four subsectors of healthcare, hospitals, physician groups, prescription drugs, and net medical insurance, have contrib…
Discrimination and Monopsony Power
Wage inequalities between identical workers of different race, ethnicity, and gender are a persistent feature of labor markets. However, most labor market models either ignore important empirical evidence or focus very narrowly on specific labor market dynamics. To better understand such wage differences, we create a labor market model that integrates firm competition for workers, employee movement between jobs in response to market signals, pote…
Slavery and capitalism
In this paper, I look at the relationship between slavery and capitalism through exploring the counterfactual of industrialization without slavery in the United States and by analyzing the deeper connection between slavery and capitalism. As we will see, slavery, and war capitalism more generally, played an important role in industrialization, and slavery and capitalism share an underlying connection that if obscured can facilitate higher levels …
The Forgotten Americans
Income inequality in the United States has been increasing rapidly over the last 40 years. This, paired with weak economic growth, means that many Americans have been left behind. In her book, Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation, Isabel Sawhill proposes a “radical centrist” response of promoting social responsibility, increased vocational and private sector training, and social insurance reform. While inequality is an imp…
Workers and technological change in the United States
In this paper, we put forward a theoretical framework for understanding a positive relationship between labor laws and innovation and rigorously test it against both historical and empirical data. We show how several periods in the economic history of the United States – like the increase in slave-field hand productivity in cotton picking in the Antebellum South, the transition in the North from artisanal shops to nonmechanized factories, the inc…
Economic Inequality and Policy Control in the United States
The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.46 percent in 2012 a 144 percent incr
Income Inequality in the United States in the Late 1860s
I utilize data from the Civil War income tax to calculate the income shares of the top 1 and 0.1 percent of the population in the United States in the late 1860s-extending Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez's series back in time. As we will see, income inequality during this period represents a low comparable to the late 1970s
Discrimination and Monopsony Power
Wage inequalities between identical workers of different race, ethnicity, and gender are a persistent feature of labor markets. However, most labor market models either ignore important empirical evidence or focus very narrowly on specific labor market dynamics. To better understand such wage differences, we create a labor market model that integrates firm competition for workers, employee movement between jobs in response to market signals, pote…
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States
Estimating the contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century is a crucial building block to better understand the contours of nineteenth-century US economic history, and more generally, the connection between slavery and capitalism. Existing estimates only present a partial picture and are potentially problematic. In this paper, we use data on enslaved person valuations …
Slavery and capitalism
In this paper, I look at the relationship between slavery and capitalism through exploring the counterfactual of industrialization without slavery in the United States and by analyzing the deeper connection between slavery and capitalism. As we will see, slavery, and war capitalism more generally, played an important role in industrialization, and slavery and capitalism share an underlying connection that if obscured can facilitate higher levels …
Income Inequality in the United States in the Late 1860s
I utilize data from the Civil War income tax to calculate the income shares of the top 1 and 0.1 percent of the population in the United States in the late 1860s-extending Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez's series back in time. As we will see, income inequality during this period represents a low comparable to the late 1970s
Monopsony and collective action in an institutional context
Recent empirical research has documented a dramatic change in government’s role in regulating employer–employee relations, a collapse in workers’ collective action, and low wage growth contributing to rising inequality. To better understand the theoretical connections between these variables, we construct a monopsony-wage-model that integrates intertemporal strategic interaction between workers and employers in the wage setting process into an in…
The big cost of big medicine – calculating the rent in private healthcare
As a country, the United States spends significantly more on healthcare than other advanced industrialized countries, and Americans have comparably worse health outcomes. Both are developments of the last four decades. In this paper, we look at how change in antitrust and patent law and thus change in market power in the largest four subsectors of healthcare, hospitals, physician groups, prescription drugs, and net medical insurance, have contrib…
The Forgotten Americans
Income inequality in the United States has been increasing rapidly over the last 40 years. This, paired with weak economic growth, means that many Americans have been left behind. In her book, Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation, Isabel Sawhill proposes a “radical centrist” response of promoting social responsibility, increased vocational and private sector training, and social insurance reform. While inequality is an imp…
Workers and technological change in the United States
In this paper, we put forward a theoretical framework for understanding a positive relationship between labor laws and innovation and rigorously test it against both historical and empirical data. We show how several periods in the economic history of the United States – like the increase in slave-field hand productivity in cotton picking in the Antebellum South, the transition in the North from artisanal shops to nonmechanized factories, the inc…
Economic Inequality and Policy Control in the United States
The income share of the top one percent of the population in the United States has increased from a little over nine percent of national income in the 1970s to 22.46 percent in 2012 a 144 percent incr
Income Inequality in the United States in the Late 1860s
I utilize data from the Civil War income tax to calculate the income shares of the top 1 and 0.1 percent of the population in the United States in the late 1860s-extending Thomas Piketty and Emmanuel Saez's series back in time. As we will see, income inequality during this period represents a low comparable to the late 1970s
Workers and technological change in the United States
In this paper, we put forward a theoretical framework for understanding a positive relationship between labor laws and innovation and rigorously test it against both historical and empirical data. We show how several periods in the economic history of the United States – like the increase in slave-field hand productivity in cotton picking in the Antebellum South, the transition in the North from artisanal shops to nonmechanized factories, the inc…
The Forgotten Americans
Income inequality in the United States has been increasing rapidly over the last 40 years. This, paired with weak economic growth, means that many Americans have been left behind. In her book, Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation, Isabel Sawhill proposes a “radical centrist” response of promoting social responsibility, increased vocational and private sector training, and social insurance reform. While inequality is an imp…
Slavery and capitalism
In this paper, I look at the relationship between slavery and capitalism through exploring the counterfactual of industrialization without slavery in the United States and by analyzing the deeper connection between slavery and capitalism. As we will see, slavery, and war capitalism more generally, played an important role in industrialization, and slavery and capitalism share an underlying connection that if obscured can facilitate higher levels …
Discrimination and Monopsony Power
Wage inequalities between identical workers of different race, ethnicity, and gender are a persistent feature of labor markets. However, most labor market models either ignore important empirical evidence or focus very narrowly on specific labor market dynamics. To better understand such wage differences, we create a labor market model that integrates firm competition for workers, employee movement between jobs in response to market signals, pote…
Growth, Consumption, and Happiness
The big cost of big medicine – calculating the rent in private healthcare
As a country, the United States spends significantly more on healthcare than other advanced industrialized countries, and Americans have comparably worse health outcomes. Both are developments of the last four decades. In this paper, we look at how change in antitrust and patent law and thus change in market power in the largest four subsectors of healthcare, hospitals, physician groups, prescription drugs, and net medical insurance, have contrib…
Monopsony and collective action in an institutional context
Recent empirical research has documented a dramatic change in government’s role in regulating employer–employee relations, a collapse in workers’ collective action, and low wage growth contributing to rising inequality. To better understand the theoretical connections between these variables, we construct a monopsony-wage-model that integrates intertemporal strategic interaction between workers and employers in the wage setting process into an in…
The contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the antebellum United States
Estimating the contribution of enslaved workers to output and growth in the United States during the first half of the nineteenth century is a crucial building block to better understand the contours of nineteenth-century US economic history, and more generally, the connection between slavery and capitalism. Existing estimates only present a partial picture and are potentially problematic. In this paper, we use data on enslaved person valuations …
Productivity Growth of Enslaved Workers
In this article, we seek to explain the increase in cotton output per enslaved worker in the United States in the decades before the Civil War. As we will see, there is considerable evidence that slave owners increased monitoring and pushed enslaved workers to labor more intensely as the antebellum period progressed. Consequently, the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States and Europe with its accelerating demand for cotton intensified…
The economic functions of extrajudicial violence in the Jim Crow South
Economics (9 obras) · Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Capitalism (3 obras) · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies (3 obras) · Demographic economics (3 obras) · Demography (3 obras) · Development economics (3 obras) · Economic growth (3 obras) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 obras)