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Lance E. Davis, Robert E. Gallman, and Karin Gleiter

In Pursuit of Leviathan

Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906

557 pages, 38 halftones, 5 maps, 20 line drawings  6 x 9  © 1997
Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development

Cloth $108.00

ISBN: 9780226137896   Published June 1997

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ISBN: 9780226137902

Preface
1: In Prospect
2: Whales and Whaling
3: Data Sets and Sources
4: Natural Resources
5: Labor
6: Capital
7: Technology
8: Productivity
9: Product Markets
10: Agents, Captains, and Owners
11: Profits
12: The Americans Replace the British
13: Modern Whaling
14: In Retrospect
References
Name Index
Subject Index
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