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Capital in Manufacturing and Mining: Its Formation and Financing
By (Author) Daniel Barnett Creamer
By (author) Sergei B. Dobrovolsky
By (author) Israel Borenstein
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Extractive industries
330
Hardback
400
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
709g
In this volume in the NBER series on capital formation and financing, the authors show, with supporting figures, two major trends in mining and manufacturing. The first is that this sector had a rate of growth significantly higher than that of the economy as a whole. The total capital assets of this sector increased fifteenfold from 1880 to 1948, w