Wealth Estimates for the New England Colonies about 1770
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10097477 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alice Hanson Jones (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 98-127 |
| Publication date | 1972-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050700075410 |
| OpenAlex | W2097297358 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 2 |
The purpose of my studies is to estimate the total and per capita wealth of the thirteen colonies in the early 1770's and something of its composition and distribution. The estimates for New England presented here add another building block to the accumulating evidence that a rather high level of living was reached in the American colonies at the close of over 150 years of economic development. They also show that wealth was unequally distributed among the population in this transitionally commercial era, well before the onset of industrialism. They yield quantitative evidence as well on size of wealth in relation to such characteristics of wealth holders as their age and sex, occupations, urban or rural residence and testacy, that is whether or not they left a will at death
Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Distribution of wealth · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Per capita · Population · Residence · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Wealth distribution · Yield (engineering · Demography · Historical Economic and Social Studies
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
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