Standard of living : essays on economics, history, and religion in honor of John E. Murray
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Standard of living : essays on economics, history, and religion in honor of John E. Murray
（Studies in economic history）
Springer, c2022
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Description
This anthology honors the life and work of American economist John E. Murray, whose work on the evolution of the standard of living spanned multiple disciplines. Publishing extensively in the areas of the history of healthcare and health insurance, labor markets, religion, and family-related issues from education to orphanages, fertility, and marriage, Murray was much more than an economic historian and his influence can be felt across the wider scholarly community. Written by Murray's academic collaborators, mentors, and mentees, this collection of essays covers topics such as the effect of the 1918 influenza pandemic on U.S. life insurance holdings, the relationship between rapid economic growth and type 2 diabetes, and the economics of the early church. This volume will be of use to scholars and students interested in economic history, cliometrics, labor economics, and American and European history, as well as the history of religion.
Table of Contents
Urbanization, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Progressive Era, 1899-1929
The Continuing Puzzle of Hypertension among African Americans: Developmental Origins and the Mid-century Socioeconomic Transformation
Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts
Sickness Experience in England, 1870-1949
Friendly societies and sickness coverage in the absence of state provision in Spain (1870-1935)
A difficult consensus: the making of the Spanish welfare state
The Effect of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic on U.S. Life Insurance Holdings
'Theft of Oneself': Runaway Servants in Early Maryland-Deterrence, Punishment, and Apprehension
Adult Guardianship and Local Politics in Rhode Island, 1750-1800
Later-life realizations of Maryland's mid-nineteenth-century pauper apprentices
Family Allocation Strategy in the Late Nineteenth Century
Child Labor and Industrialization in Early Republican Turkey
Orphans, Widows, and the Economics of the Early Church
An Economic Approach to Religious Communes: The Shakers
Religion, Human Capital, and Economic Diversity in 19th Century Hesse-Cassel
Productivity, Mortality, and Technology in European and US Coal Mining, 1800-1913
Breathing Apparatus for Mine Rescue in the UK, 1890s - 1920s
Grain Market Integration in Late Colonial Mexico
"William McKinley, Optimal Reneging, and the Spanish-American War"
Capitalism and the Good Society: The Original Case for and against Commerce
Situating Southern Influences in James M. Buchanan and Modern Public Choice Economics
Index
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