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Time on the Cross.: The Economics of American Negro Slavery; [together with] Time on the Cross: Evidence and Methods - A Supplement.
by FOGEL, Robert William, & Stanley L. Engerman
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About This Item
Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company,, 1974. A controversial work by the Nobel Laureate First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the half-title of each volume. The authors controversially argued, using sophisticated economic models, that American slavery was more economically profitable than previously believed, indeed more productive than free labour. In 1993 Fogel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics (along with Douglass North) for developing "'new economic history', or cliometrics, i.e. research that combines economic theory, quantitative methods, hypothesis testing, counterfactual alternatives and traditional techniques of economic history, to explain economic growth and decline" (Nobel press release). Two volumes, octavo. Original brown cloth, spines lettered in gilt. With dust jackets. Jackets a little worn and scratched with two longer tears at head of spine panel of vol. II, unclipped: fine copies in good jackets.
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- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163797
- Title
- Time on the Cross.
- Author
- FOGEL, Robert William, & Stanley L. Engerman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Toronto: Little, Brown and Company,
- Date Published
- 1974
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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