Author: Goldin Claudia Goldin

In contemporary American political discourse, issues related to the scope, authority, and the cost of the federal government are perennially at the center of discussion. Any historical analysis of th …

Despite recent corporate scandals, the United States is among the world’s least corrupt nations. But in the nineteenth century, the degree of fraud and corruption in America approached that of today’ …

How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twent …

Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy-labor, capital, and political structure-the contributors to this volume employ a methodology i …

Today, more American women than ever before stay in the workforce into their sixties and seventies. This trend emerged in the 1980s, and has persisted during the past three decades, despite substanti …

Gives permanence and context to Gallman’s influential economic research on growth theory.When we think about history, we often think about people, events, ideas, and revolutions, but what about the n …

An incisive history of American education-its great success in creating prosperity and equality during the twentieth century and its relative decline since the 1970s."As Goldin and Katz have arg …

An incisive history of American education-its great success in creating prosperity and equality during the twentieth century and its relative decline since the 1970s."As Goldin and Katz have arg …