First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 296 pp., folding map. Errata slip loosely inserted. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, dust jacket (contents clean and fresh; jacket with light rubbing and creasing to extremities, a very good copy indeed). Baltimore, Maryland; The Johns Hopkins Press, 1964.
Inscribed by the author ‘with best wishes Robert Fogel 7/12/01’ in blue ink to the front free endpaper.
A collection of essays by the Nobel Prize winning American economist Robert Fogel 1926-2013) that variously challenge “the widely held belief that railroads were indispensable to American economic growth during the nineteenth century”. Fogel was awarded the 1993 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change.”
