Economic integration and convergence: US Regions, 1840-1987

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Washington University (WUSTL)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050700021112
• 发表日期: 1998
• 页码: 659-683
• 关键词: american

摘要

Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the regions of the United States went from a set of relatively isolated regional economies to an integrated national economy. Economic integration, as well as long-run secular changes in the economic structure associated with economic growth, played an important role in determining U.S. regional industrial structures. Moreover, although differences in regional industrial structures do not explain all the variations in regional income per capita, they played an important role in causing U.S. regional incomes to diverge and converge between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.