Labor Scarcity and the Problem of American Industrial Efficiency in the 1850's

by Peter Temin

Excerpt from Labor Scarcity and the Problem of American Industrial Efficiency in the 1850's

Turning to an explanation of the still inadequately delimited Anglo American differences, we find that the British visitors of the 1850's had four different (1) the scarcity of labor in the United States.

75 pages, Paperback

First published August 12, 2015

About the author

Peter Temin was an economist and economic historian, serving as the Gray Professor Emeritus of Economics at MIT, where he was formerly the head of the Economics Department.