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Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

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Historians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism: how large was the flow of finance to the empire? How great were the profits on empire investment? What were the social costs of maintaining the empire? Who received the profits, and who bore the costs? The authors show that colonial finance did not dominate British capital markets; returns from empire investment were not high in comparison to earnings in the domestic and foreign sectors; there is no evidence of continued exploitative profits; and empire profits were earned at a substantial cost to the taxpayer. They depict British imperialism as a mechanism to effect an income transfer from the tax-paying middle class to the elites in which the ownership of imperial enterprise was heavily concentrated, with some slight net transfer to the colonies in the process.

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Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860 1912 MAMMON AND THE PURSUIT OF EMPIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1860 1912 By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Aug-20-2009 Paperback

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Institutional Change and American Economic Growth INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Dec-11-2008 Paperback

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In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)

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In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling industry from its rise in the 1840s to its precipitous fall at the end of the nineteenth century. Using detailed and comprehensive data that describe more than four thousand whaling voyages from New Bedford, Massachusetts, the leading nineteenth-century whaling port, the authors explore the market for whale products, crew quality and labor contracts, and whale biology and distribution, and assess the productivity of the American fleet. They then examine new whaling techniques developed at the end of the nineteenth century, such as modified clippers and harpoons, and the introduction of darting guns. Despite the common belief that the whaling industry declined due to a fall in whale stocks, the authors argue that the industry's collapse was related to changes in technology and market conditions. Providing a wealth of historical information, In Pursuit of Leviathan is a classic industry study that will provide intriguing reading for anyone interested in the history of whaling.

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Institutional Change and American Economic Growth

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This book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors develop their model of institutional change. They argue that if external economic factors make an increase in income possible but not attainable within the existing institutional structure, new organizations must be developed to achieve the potential in income. Their model is designed to explain the type and timing of these necessary changes in institutional organization. Individual, voluntary cooperative, and governmental arrangements are included in the discussion, although the latter differs considerably from the first two.

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International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914

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This book examines the economic impact and the political economy of foreign investment in the United States and of American investment abroad. It provides quantitative estimates and qualitative descriptions of the sources and uses of those funds and, in the process, an analysis of the symbiotic relationship between the New York and London stock exchanges and of the evolution of the American domestic capital market. Finally, it explores the domestic political response to foreign investment in Latin America, in Canada, and in the United States.

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International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914 (This book examines the economic impact and the political ...)
The Growth of Industrial Enterprise, 1860-1914 (Economic Forces in American History)
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Lance Edwin Davis, American Economics educator. Recipient Arthur Cole prize Economics History Association, 1966; Ford Foundation Faculty fellow, 1959-1960; Guggenheim fellow, 1964-1965; fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1985-1986.

Background

Davis, Lance Edwin was born on November 3, 1928 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Maurice L. and Marjorie Dee (Seibert) Davis.

Education

Bachelor, University Washington, Seattle, 1950. Doctor of Philosophy (Ford Foundation dissertation fellow summer 1956), Johns Hopkins University, 1956.

Career

Teaching assistant, U. Washington, 1950-1951, 52-53; teaching assistant, then instructor, Johns Hopkins University, 1953-1955; from instructor to professor economics, Purdue University, 1955-1962; member of faculty, California Institute Technology, Pasadena professor economics, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, since 1968; Mary Stillman Harkness professor, California Institute Technology, Pasadena, since 1980; research associate, National Bureau Economics Research, since 1979.

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Lance Edwin Davis has been listed as a noteworthy economics professor by Marquis Who's Who.

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Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860 1912 MAMMON AND THE PURSUIT OF EMPIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1860 1912 By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Aug-20-2009 Paperback Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860 1912 MAMMON AND THE PURSUIT OF EMPIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1860 1912 By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Aug-20-2009 Paperback

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Dec-11-2008 Paperback Institutional Change and American Economic Growth INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Dec-11-2008 Paperback

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev) In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth Institutional Change and American Economic Growth

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914 International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914

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- Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
  (This book presents a model for examining problems of inst...)
- In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)
  ( In Pursuit of Leviathan traces the American whaling ind...)
- International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914
  (This book examines the economic impact and the political ...)
- International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914
  (This book examines the economic impact and the political ...)
- Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
  (Historians have so far made few attempts to assess direct...)
- Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)
  (Historians have so far made few attempts to assess direct...)
- The Growth of Industrial Enterprise, 1860-1914 (Economic Forces in American History)
- Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860 1912 MAMMON AND THE PURSUIT OF EMPIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1860 1912 By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Aug-20-2009 Paperback
- Institutional Change and American Economic Growth INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Dec-11-2008 Paperback
- (International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914 ) Author: Lance E. Davis Jul-2002

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With United States Naval Reserve, 1945-1948, 51-52. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Council 1 Research Economics History (chairman 1973-1974, 75-76), Economics History Association (president 1978-1979, trustee 1980-1982, Alice Hanson Jones prize 1998), Anglo-American History Association (governor 1978-1980), Economics Institute (policy and advisory board 1984-1987), Cliometric Society (trustee 1993-1997).

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Married Susan Elizabeth Gray, December 2, 1977. 1 child, Maili.

Father:: Maurice L. Davis
Mother:: Marjorie Dee (Seibert) Davis
Spouse:: Susan Elizabeth Gray
child:: Maili Davis

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November 3, 1928

Seattle, Washington, United States
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American

Education

1950

University Washington , Bachelor of Arts
1956

Johns Hopkins University , Doctor of Philosophy Foundation dissertation fellow summer 1956)

Career

Teaching assistant , University Washington
Mary Stillman Harkness professor faculty , California Institute of Technology
1950 - 1951

Teaching assistant , University Washington
1953 - 1955

teaching assistant , Johns Hopkins University
1953 - 1955

then instructor , Johns Hopkins University
1955 - 1962

from instructor to professor economics , Purdue University
1968

member faculty , California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, California, United States
1979

research associate , National Bureau Economic Research

Awards

Recipient Arthur Cole prize Economic History Association, 1966, Alice Hanson Jones prize, 1998, Sanwa Monograph prize Center for Japan-United States Business and Economic Studies, 1995, Library. Company Philadelphia program in early American economy and society prize, 2000. Ford Foundation Faculty fellow, 1959-1960. Guggenheim fellow, 1964-1965. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1985-1986.

Recipient Arthur Cole prize Economic History Association, 1966, Alice Hanson Jones prize, 1998, Sanwa Monograph prize Center for Japan-United States Business and Economic Studies, 1995, Library. Company Philadelphia program in early American economy and society prize, 2000. Ford Foundation Faculty fellow, 1959-1960.

Guggenheim fellow, 1964-1965. Fellow Center for Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1985-1986.

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Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860-1912 (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History)

Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, 1860 1912 MAMMON AND THE PURSUIT OF EMPIRE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRITISH IMPERIALISM, 1860 1912 By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Aug-20-2009 Paperback

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE AND AMERICAN ECONOMIC GROWTH By Davis, Lance E. ( Author )Dec-11-2008 Paperback

In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906 (National Bureau of Economic Research Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Dev)

Institutional Change and American Economic Growth

International Capital Markets and American Economic Growth, 1820-1914

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