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General editor's introduction: R. A. Church and E. A. Wrigley. Introduction: Peter Temin. Part I: Income Growth and Distribution: . 1. The pace and pattern of American economic growth: Robert E. Gallman. 2. New light on a statistical dark age: US real product growth before 1840: Paul A. David. 3. Wealth mobility: the missing elements: J. R. Kearl and Clayne L. Pope. 4. The economic status of women in the early re[ublic: quantitative evidence: Claudis Goldin. 5. The growth of wages in antebellum America: new evidence: Robert A. Margo and Georgia C. Villaflor. Part II: Slavery and Southern Agriculture:. 6. The causes of slavery or serfdom: a hypothesis: Evsey D. Domar. 7. The economics of slavery in the ante bellum south: Alfred H. Conrad and John R. Meyer. 8. Slavery and supervision in comparative: a model: Stefano Fenoaltea. 9. The impact of the Civil War and emancipation on southern agriculture: Roger Ransom and Richard Sutch. Part III: Northern Agriculture:. 10. Antebellum interregional trade reconsidered: Albert Fishlow. 11. The mechanization of reaping in the ante–bellum midwest: Paul A. David. 12. Popluation change and farm settlement in the northern United Stated: Richard A. Easterlin. 13. Land tenure and land settlement: policy and patterns in the Canadian Prairies and the Argentine pampas, 1880–1930: Carl E. Solberg. Part IV: Early Industrial Growth: . 14. Labor scarcity and the problem of American industrial efficiency in the 1850s: Peter Temin. 15. Cheap labor and the southern textiles before 1880: Gavin Wright. 16. Women, children, and the industrialization in the early republic:evidence from the manufacturing censuses: Claudia Goldin and Kenneth Sokoloff. 17. Was the transition from artisanal shop to the nonmechanized factory associated with gains in efficiency?: evidence from the U.S. manufacturing censuses of 1820 and 1850: Kenneth L. Sokoloff. 18. Land abundance, interest/profit rates, and nineteenth–century American and British technology: Alexander James Field. 19. International competitiveness of the antebellum American cotton textile industry: C. Knick Harley. Part V: Later Industrial Growth:. 20. A quantitative approach to the study of railroads in American economic growth: a report of some preliminary findings: Robert W. Fogel. 21. Hard Driving and efficiency: iron production in 1890: Peter Berck. 22. The United States: seedbed of managerial capatalism: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. Part VI: Banking and Financial Markets: . 23. Banks, kinship, and economic development: the New England case: Naomi R. Lamoreaux. 24. The economic consequences of the bank war. 25. The investment market, 1870–1914: the evolution of a national market: Lance E. Davis. 26. Industrial concentration and the capital markets: a comparative study of Brazil, Mexico, and the United States, 1830–1930: Stephen H. Haber. Acknowledgements.