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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2009
I suggest here that change in a number of social variables, including values, vertical mobility, political and social power, technology and law, appear to be associated with economic growth or decline and that the study of economic history would be enriched by investigations of the nature and timing of those linkages. Illustrative models of the linkages are drawn for the early Middle Ages in Western Europe and for the colonial and antebellum periods of American history.
He would like to thank the following for their helpful comments: Barbara A. Black, Donald Dewey, Sigmund Damond, Louis Henkin, Norman Mint, Erlc L. McKitrick, Richard B. Morris and Alden Vaughan of Columbia University; Vincent P. Carosso of New York University; Joel Colton of Duke University; Tian Kang Go of Chuo University (Tokyo); John Hoigham of the Johns Hopkins University; Jackson Turner Main of the University Colorado; Jerome J. Nadelhalf of the University of Maine; Rosalind Seneca of Drew University, and Frederick D. Williams of Michigan State University.Google Scholar
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