American Economic Development in Historical Perspectives, 1630-1930

(Cross-listed as History 179.) History of the American economy as a consequence of three regional development strategies: plantation production of staple exports (South); import-substitution-industrialization (North); small-scale commercial agriculture (West.) Topics include interregional trade, the retardation of the postbellum South, transformation of northern manufacturing, and the new macroeconomics of the Great Depression. Prerequisites: Economics 5 or Economics 8.