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study of the pattern of seventeenth-century New England popula-tion growth. The purpose of this essay is to provide the missing link between the population parameters and the aggregate estimates. Below we will first critically review the existing population series for colonial New England. Following this we will discuss and apply a stable
Mar 23, 2015 · All of this checked the growth of colony-wide per capita income after a seventeenth-century boom. The American colonies led Great Britain in purchasing power per capita from 1700, and possibly from 1650, until 1774, even counting slaves in the population.
- Peter H. Lindert, Jeffrey G. Williamson
- 2015
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For much of the 17th century, Barbados was a far more powerful economic engine than Virginia or Massachusetts. The English conquest of Jamaica in 1655 set the conditions for an even more economically dynamic model.
Mar 28, 2008 · The Population of the United States, 1790–1920; By Michael Haines, Colgate University Edited by Stanley L. Engerman, University of Rochester, New York, Robert E. Gallman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Book: The Cambridge Economic History of the United States; Online publication: 28 March 2008
- Michael R Haines
- 1994
Other seventeenth-century Anglo-American economies varied somewhat from these two early models. The Hudson River settlements, founded by the Dutch in 1613 and captured by the English in 1664, early centered on the fur trade but also developed a significant agricultural base.
Jul 1, 1978 · The result of this paucity of population data and other economic statistics has been a lack of consensus among scholars on the amount, pattern, and determinants of economic and demographic change during the seventeenth century.
During the past few years new measures of growth have begun to emerge for the colonial period in American history which allow us to understand more fully the pace and pattern of long-run economic growth. This essay summarizes what we know about colonial growth and discusses rates of growth during the seventeenth.
