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Jeremy Atack

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Jeremy Atack's Degrees

PhD Economics University of California, Berkeley
Masters Economics University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Economics University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Jeremy Atack received his B.A. from Jesus College of the University of Cambridge in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Indiana University Bloomington in 1976. He is Research Professor Emeritus of Economics at Vanderbilt University, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the Cliometric Society, and was the Kinkhead Research Scholar at the University of Illinois . He is a noted academic economic historian whose primary research focus is on 19th century US industrialization. He has been president of the Economic History Association , the Agricultural History Society and the Business History Conference .

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Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth?: Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850–1860 (2010) (193)
Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? (2009) (182)
A new economic view of American history : from colonial times to 1940 (1994) (134)
To their own soil : agriculture in the Antebellum North (1988) (126)
Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70 (2008) (103)
To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. (1988) (89)
“Location, Location, Location!” The Price Gradient for Vacant Urban Land: New York, 1835 to 1900 (1998) (85)
The impact of access to rail transportation on agricultural improvement (2011) (77)
Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing (2004) (75)
Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing (2006) (74)
Nineteenth-Century U.S. Industrial Development through the Eyes of the Census of Manufactures a New Resource for Historical Research (1999) (69)
On the Use of Geographic Information Systems in Economic History: The American Transportation Revolution Revisited (2013) (68)
The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1852. By H. I. Dutton. (Dover, N. H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. vii + 232 pp. $32.50.) (1985) (67)
The Regional Diffusion and Adoption of the Steam Engine in American Manufacturing (1980) (67)
The Farm, The Farmer, and The Market (2000) (52)
Egalitarianism, Inequality, and Age: The Rural North in 1860 (1981) (52)
The origins and development of financial markets and institutions : from the seventeenth century to the present (2009) (47)
How Long Was the Workday in 1880? (1990) (46)
The standardization of manufacturing: from the american system to mass production, 1800-1932. (1984) (43)
Industrial structure and the emergence of the modern industrial corporation (1985) (43)
Productivity in Manufacturing and the Length of the Working Day: Evidence from the 1880 Census of Manufactures (2000) (36)
The "Egalitarian Ideal" and the Distribution of Wealth in the Northern Agricultural Community: A Backward Look (1981) (33)
Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth-Century United States Manufacturing and the Form of the Production Function (1978) (33)
Firm Size and Industrial Structure in the United States During the Nineteenth Century (1986) (32)
The measurement and trend of inequality : An amendment to a basic revision (1979) (31)
“Automation” of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study (2019) (30)
“Matchmaker, Matchmaker, Make Me a Match” (1992) (28)
Fact in fiction? : the relative costs of steam and water power : a simulation approach / BEBR No. 516 (1978) (25)
Returns to scale in antebellum United States manufacturing (1977) (25)
Northern Agriculture and the Westward Movement (2000) (23)
American Banking and the Transportation Revolution before the Civil War (2014) (22)
PART-YEAR OPERATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MANUFACTURING: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1870 AND 1880 CENSUSES (2002) (22)
Capital Deepening and the Rise of the Factory: The American Experience During the Nineteenth Century (2005) (21)
Part-Year Operation in 19th Century American Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 Censuses (2001) (17)
Business Activity and the Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869 (1997) (16)
Quantity and Quiddity: Essays in U.S. Economic History. (1988) (15)
The Impact of Railroads on School Enrollment in Nineteenth Century America (2011) (13)
Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880 (2000) (11)
Gallman revisited: blacksmithing and American manufacturing, 1850–1870 (2017) (9)
The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions (2009) (9)
Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880 (2003) (9)
Whom Did Protective Legislation Protect? Evidence from 1880 (1991) (9)
Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: the American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860 (2009) (9)
On The Historical (2018) (8)
Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development--An appreciation and research agenda (2009) (7)
Risk, the Rate of Return and the Pattern of Investment in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing* (1982) (7)
Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. By Claudia Goldin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 287. $29.95 (1991) (6)
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America (2021) (6)
"Location, Location, Location!" the Market for Vacant Urban Land: New York 1835-1900 (1996) (5)
‘Mechanization Takes Command’: Inanimate Power and Labor Productivity in Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing (2020) (5)
A nineteenth-century resource for agricultural history research in the twenty-first century (2004) (5)
The Profitability of Steamboating on Western Rivers: 1850 (1975) (4)
Steel rails and American railroads, 1867-1880 (1982) (4)
America:: capitalism’s promised land (2014) (4)
Economies of Scale in Western River Steamboating: A Comment (1978) (4)
Creating historical transportation shapefiles of navigable rivers, canals, and railroads for the United States before World War I (2018) (4)
Did Railroads Make Antebellum U.S. Banks More Sound? (2014) (3)
Profitability, firm size, and business organization in nineteenth-century U.S. manufacturing (2008) (3)
Capital Deepening in United States Manufacturing, 1850-1880 (2003) (3)
Stronger Than A Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel. By Terry S. Reynolds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, New Series (No. 7), 1983. Pp. xviii, 454. $35.00 (1984) (3)
Louis Brandeis, Work and Fatigue at the Start of the Twentieth Century: Prelude to Oregon&Apos;S Hours Limitation Law (1991) (2)
“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing (2022) (2)
The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: Financial innovations and crises: The view backwards from Northern Rock (2009) (2)
RISING WAGE DISPERSION ACROSS AMERICAN MANUFACTURING (2000) (2)
Irregular Production and Time-Out-Of-Work in American Manufacturing Industry in 1870 and 1880: Some Preliminary Estimates (1995) (2)
An Emerging Independent American Economy, 1815-1875 (1980) (1)
Risk, the rate of return and the pattern of investment in nineteenth century American industrialization / BEBR No. 575 (1979) (1)
The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War. By Heather Cox Richardson · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiii + 342 pp. Bibliography and index. $35.00. ISBN 0674362136 (1998) (1)
Historical GIS: technologies, methodologies and scholarship (2009) (1)
Marketable Farm Surpluses: Northeastern and Midwestern United States, 1859 and 1860 (1984) (1)
Optimal plant size and industrial structure before the modern industrial corporation / BEBR No.935 (1983) (1)
Steel rails and American railroads, 1867-1880: Reply to Harley (1983) (1)
1999 BHC Presidential Address Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence in the Weaving of Business and Economic History: Western River Steamboats and the Transportation Revolution Revisited (1999) (1)
Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, 1700–1960. By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 467. $80.00 cloth; $23.99, paper (2009) (1)
Tenants and Yeomen in the Nineteenth Century (2016) (1)
Editorial Board (1994) (0)
Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas . By Randolph B. Campbell and Richard G. Lowe. College Station and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. Pp. iv,. 183. $14.50. (1978) (0)
Production Conditions For Inter-Regionally Traded Commodities (2018) (0)
The survivor technique and identification of optimal plant size using individual plant data / BEBR No. 383 (1977) (0)
Downtime in American Manufacturing Industry: 1870 and 1880 (2000) (0)
The diffusion and adoption of the steam engine in manufacturing industry during the nineteenth century / BEBR No. 515 (1978) (0)
The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: Frontmatter (2009) (0)
The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Relationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniques. By Amos J. Loveday Jr., Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1983. Pp. xx, 160. $29.95 (1984) (0)
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume I: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1979. Pp. xxv + 606. $24.95 (1980) (0)
EDITORS' REPORT, SEPTEMBER 2004 (2005) (0)
The Data And Tests Of The Samples (2018) (0)
On The Estimation Of Economies Of Scale (2018) (0)
Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810–1850 . By Diane Lindstrom. New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 255. $15.00. (1979) (0)
Oliver Evans. Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution. by Eugene S. Ferguson. Greenville, Delaware: Hagley Museum, 1980. Pp. 72. $4.95 (1981) (0)
Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 324. $48.00, cloth (2009) (0)
The Survivor Technique And Optimal Plant Size (2018) (0)
The Econometric Interpretation Of The Production Function Estimates (2018) (0)
The Sensitivity Of Returns To Scale To Units And Methods Of Measurement (2018) (0)
Railroads (2019) (0)
A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. 2: Steam Power. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. Pp. xxii, 732. $50.00 (1987) (0)
Book Reviews 301 Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Cen- (2010) (0)
Productivity in manufactoring and the length of the working day : Evidence from the 1880 Census of Manufactures Working (2000) (0)
EDITORS' REPORT, 2004/05 (2006) (0)
Birth Weight and Economic Growth: Women's Living Standards in the Industrializing West.W. Peter Ward (1995) (0)
Editors' Notes (2008) (0)
The Aggregate Regional Production Function (2018) (0)
Some Evidence On Decreasing Scale Elasticity (2018) (0)
Historical Perspetives on the American Economy: “Industrial structure and the emergence of the modern industrial corporation” (1995) (0)
Towards a typology of American agriculture in the northern United States (1986) (0)
Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820-1940: New Evidence (2023) (0)
Transportation in American Economic History (2018) (0)
The American Census: A Social History. By Margo J. Anderson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 257. $30.00 (1989) (0)
Trade Frictions and Micro-Price Behaviors: Historical Applications from the United States By James Harrison Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Vanderbilt University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (2018) (0)
A Nineteenth–Century Resource for Agricultural History Research in the Twenty–First Century (2004) (0)
Digitizing Carroll D. Wright’s “Hand and Machine Labor” Study (2023) (0)
Recent Developments in the Study of Economic and Business History: Essays in Memory of Herman E. Krooss. Edited by Robert E. Gallman. Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 305. $12.50. (1978) (0)
Gallman revisited: blacksmithing and American manufacturing, 1850–1870 (2017) (0)
Multiple bacterial veterinary pathogens contain phase-variable regulons; phasevarions (2018) (0)
The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions: Preface and acknowledgments (2009) (0)

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