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Jeremy Atack

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Terminal Degree:1976 Department of Economics; Indiana University (from RePEc Genealogy)

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Department of Economics
Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee (United States)
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/econ/
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Working papers

  1. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo & Paul Rhode, 2023. "De-skilling: Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing," NBER Working Papers 31334, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo & Paul Rhode, 2023. "Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820-1940: New Evidence," NBER Working Papers 31163, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo & Paul Rhode, 2021. "Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America," NBER Working Papers 28597, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo & Paul Rhode, 2020. "‘Mechanization Takes Command’: Inanimate Power and Labor Productivity in Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing," NBER Working Papers 27436, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo, 2017. "Gallman Revisited: Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1870," NBER Working Papers 23399, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Jeremy Atack & Matthew S. Jaremski & Peter L. Rousseau, 2014. "American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War," NBER Working Papers 20198, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Jeremy Atack & Matthew S. Jaremski & Peter L. Rousseau, 2014. "Did Railroads Make Antebellum U.S. Banks More Sound?," NBER Working Papers 20032, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Robert A. Margo & Jeremy Atack, 2010. "The Impact of Access to Rail Transportation on Agricultural Improvement: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series WP2010-026, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  9. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Michael Haines & Robert A. Margo, 2009. "Did Railroads Induce Or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization And Population Growth In The American Midwest, 1850-60," Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series dp-178, Boston University - Department of Economics.
  10. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo, 2009. "Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860," NBER Working Papers 15520, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Jeremy Atack & Michael R. Haines & Robert A. Margo, 2008. "Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70," NBER Working Papers 14410, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert Margo, 2006. "Steam Power, Establishment Size, and Labor Productivity Growth in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing," NBER Working Papers 11931, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  13. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert A. Margo, 2003. "Capital Deepening in United States Manufacturing, 1850-1880," Harvard Institute of Economic Research Working Papers 2018, Harvard - Institute of Economic Research.
  14. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert A. Margo, 2003. "Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880," NBER Working Papers 9923, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  15. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert A. Margo, 2001. "Part-Year Operation in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 Censuses," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 0106, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics, revised Mar 2001.
  16. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert A. Margo, 2001. "Part-Year Operation in 19th Century American Manufacturing: Evidence from the 1870 and 1880 Censuses," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_327, Levy Economics Institute.
  17. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert A. Margo, 2000. "Rising Wage Dispersion Across American Manufacturing Establishments, 1850-1880," NBER Working Papers 7932, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  18. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman, 2000. "Downtime in American Manufacturing Industry: 1870 and 1880," Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers 0048, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics.
  19. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert A. Margo, 2000. "Productivity in Manufacturing and the Length of the Working Day: Evidence from the 1880 Census of Manufactures," Economics Working Paper Archive wp_317, Levy Economics Institute.
  20. Jeremy Atack & Peter L. Rousseau, 1997. "Business Activity and the Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869," NBER Historical Working Papers 0103, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  21. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo, 1996. ""Location, Location, Location!" The Market for Vacant Urban Land: New York 1835-1900," NBER Historical Working Papers 0091, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  22. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman, 1995. "Irregular Production and Time-out-of-Work in American Manufacturing Industry in 1870 and 1880: Some Preliminary Estimates," NBER Historical Working Papers 0069, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  23. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman, 1991. "Whom Did Protective Legislation Protect? Evidence From 1880," NBER Historical Working Papers 0033, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  24. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman, 1991. "Louis Brandeis, Work and Fatigue at the Start of the Twentieth Century: Prelude to Oregon's Hours Limitation Law," NBER Historical Working Papers 0025, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  25. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman, 1990. "How Long Was the Workday in 1880?," NBER Historical Working Papers 0015, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Atack Jeremy & A. Margo Robert & W. Rhode Paul, 2023. "Digitizing Carroll D. Wright’s “Hand and Machine Labor” Study," Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, De Gruyter, vol. 64(1), pages 9-30, May.
  2. Atack, Jeremy & Margo, Robert A. & Rhode, Paul W., 2022. "“Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(3), pages 663-689, September.
  3. Atack, Jeremy & Margo, Robert A. & Rhode, Paul W., 2022. "Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
  4. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo, 2019. "Gallman revisited: blacksmithing and American manufacturing, 1850–1870," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 13(1), pages 1-23, January.
  5. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo & Paul W. Rhode, 2019. ""Automation" of Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Hand and Machine Labor Study," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 33(2), pages 51-70, Spring.
  6. Atack, Jeremy & Jaremski, Matthew & Rousseau, Peter L., 2014. "American Banking and the Transportation Revolution before the Civil War," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(4), pages 943-986, December.
  7. Atack, Jeremy, 2013. "On the Use of Geographic Information Systems in Economic History: The American Transportation Revolution Revisited," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 73(2), pages 313-338, June.
  8. Atack, Jeremy & Margo, Robert, 2011. "The Impact of Access to Rail Transportation on Agricultural Improvement: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860," The Journal of Transport and Land Use, Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, vol. 4(2), pages 5-18.
  9. Atack, Jeremy & Coclanis, Peter & Grantham, George, 2009. "Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development--An appreciation and research agenda," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 46(1), pages 160-167, January.
  10. Atack, Jeremy, 2009. "Troubled Waters: Steamboat Disasters, River Improvements, and American Public Policy, 1821–1860. By Paul F. Paskoff. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007. Pp. xx, 324. $48.00, cloth," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 69(1), pages 319-320, March.
  11. Atack, Jeremy, 2009. "Creating Abundance: Biological Innovation and American Agricultural Development, 1700–1960. By Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Pp. xii, 467. $80.00 cl," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 69(3), pages 888-890, September.
  12. Jeremy Atack, 2009. "Historical GIS: technologies, methodologies and scholarship," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 62(3), pages 781-782, August.
  13. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred & Margo, Robert A., 2008. "Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 45(2), pages 185-198, April.
  14. Atack, Jeremy, 2008. "Editors' Notes," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(1), pages 292-299, March.
  15. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman & Robert A. Margo, 2005. "Capital deepening and the rise of the factory: the American experience during the nineteenth century," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(3), pages 586-595, August.
  16. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred & Margo, Robert A., 2004. "Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 64(1), pages 172-192, March.
  17. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred & Margo, Robert A., 2003. "Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day: evidence from the 1880 census of manufactures," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 40(2), pages 170-194, April.
  18. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred & Margo, Robert A., 2002. "Part-Year Operation In Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing: Evidence From The 1870 And 1880 Censuses," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 62(3), pages 792-809, September.
  19. Atack, Jeremy & Rousseau, Peter L., 1999. "Business Activity and the Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 36(2), pages 144-179, April.
  20. Atack, Jeremy & Margo, Robert A, 1998. ""Location, Location, Location!" The Price Gradient for Vacant Urban Land: New York, 1835 to 1900," The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Springer, vol. 16(2), pages 151-172, March.
  21. Atack, Jeremy, 1998. "The Greatest Nation on Earth: Republican Economic Policies During the Civil War. ByHeather Cox Richardson · Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1997. xiii + 342 pp. Bibliography and index. $3," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(1), pages 152-153, April.
  22. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred, 1992. "How Long Was the Workday in 1880?," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(1), pages 129-160, March.
  23. Atack, Jeremy, 1991. "Understanding the Gender Gap: An Economic History of American Women. By Claudia Goldin. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Pp. xx, 287. $29.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(1), pages 246-248, March.
  24. Atack, Jeremy, 1989. "The American Census: A Social History. By Margo J. Anderson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii, 257. $30.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 49(3), pages 769-771, September.
  25. Atack, Jeremy, 1987. "A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Vol. 2: Steam Power. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1985. Pp. xxii, 732. $50.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 47(1), pages 270-273, March.
  26. Atack, Jeremy, 1986. "Firm Size and Industrial Structure in the United States During the Nineteenth Century," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 46(2), pages 463-475, June.
  27. Atack, Jeremy, 1985. "The Patent System and Inventive Activity during the Industrial Revolution, 1750–1852. By H. I. Dutton. (Dover, N. H.: Manchester University Press, 1984. vii + 232 pp. $32.50.)," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(3), pages 518-519, October.
  28. Atack, Jeremy, 1985. "Industrial structure and the emergence of the modern industrial corporation," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 22(1), pages 29-52, January.
  29. Atack, Jeremy, 1984. "Stronger Than A Hundred Men: A History of the Vertical Water Wheel. By Terry S. Reynolds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology, New Series (No. 7), 1983. Pp. xviii, 454. $35.0," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 44(1), pages 232-233, March.
  30. Atack, Jeremy, 1984. "The Rise and Decline of the American Cut Nail Industry: A Study of the Relationships of Technology, Business Organization, and Management Techniques. By Amos J. LovedayJr., Westport, Connecticut: Gree," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 44(4), pages 1118-1119, December.
  31. Atack, Jeremy & Brueckner, Jan K., 1983. "Steel rails and American railroads, 1867-1880: Reply to Harley," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 20(3), pages 258-262, July.
  32. Atack, Jeremy & Brueckner, Jan K., 1982. "Steel rails and American railroads, 1867-1880," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 19(4), pages 339-359, October.
  33. Atack, Jeremy, 1981. "Oliver Evans. Inventive Genius of the American Industrial Revolution. by Eugene S. Ferguson. Greenville, Delaware: Hagley Museum, 1980. Pp. 72. $4.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 41(3), pages 693-693, September.
  34. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred, 1981. "Egalitarianism, Inequality, and Age: The Rural North in 1860," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 41(1), pages 85-93, March.
  35. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred, 1981. "The "Egalitarian Ideal" and the Distribution of Wealth in the Northern Agricultural Community: A Backward Look," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 63(1), pages 124-129, February.
  36. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred & Weiss, Thomas, 1980. "The Regional Diffusion and Adoption of the Steam Engine in American Manufacturing," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 40(2), pages 281-308, June.
  37. Atack, Jeremy, 1980. "A History of Industrial Power in the United States, 1780–1930. Volume I: Waterpower in the Century of the Steam Engine. By Louis C. Hunter. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1979. Pp. x," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 54(3), pages 407-409, October.
  38. Atack, Jeremy, 1979. "Economic Development in the Philadelphia Region, 1810–1850. By Diane Lindstrom. New York, Columbia University Press, 1978. Pp. ix + 255. $15.00," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 53(2), pages 272-273, July.
  39. Atack, Jeremy, 1979. "Fact in fiction? The relative costs of steam and water power: a simulation approach," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 409-437, October.
  40. Atack, Jeremy & Bateman, Fred, 1979. "The measurement and trend of inequality : An amendment to a basic revision," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 4(4), pages 389-393.
  41. Atack, Jeremy, 1978. "Economies of Scale in Western River Steamboating: A Comment," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 38(2), pages 457-466, June.
  42. Atack, Jeremy, 1978. "Recent Developments in the Study of Economic and Business History: Essays in Memory of Herman E. Krooss. Edited by Robert E. Gallman. Greenwich, Connecticut, JAI Press, 1977. Pp. ix + 305. $12.50," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 52(4), pages 572-573, January.
  43. Atack, Jeremy, 1978. "Estimation of Economies of Scale in Nineteenth-Century United States Manufacturing and the Form of the Production Function," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 38(1), pages 268-270, March.
  44. Atack, Jeremy, 1978. "Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas. By Randolph B. Campbell and Richard G. Lowe. College Station and London: Texas A&M University Press, 1977. Pp. iv,. 183. $14.50," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 38(4), pages 979-980, December.
  45. Atack, Jeremy, 1977. "Returns to scale in antebellum United States manufacturing," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 14(4), pages 337-359, November.
  46. Atack, Jeremy & Haites, Erik F. & Mak, James & Walton, Gary M., 1975. "The Profitability of Steamboating on Western Rivers: 1850," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 49(3), pages 346-354, October.

Chapters

  1. Jeremy Atack & Robert A. Margo & Paul W. Rhode, 2024. "Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820–1940: New Evidence," NBER Chapters, in: The Economic History of American Inequality: New Evidence and Perspectives, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Jeremy Atack & Fred Bateman, 2018. "Who Did Protective Legislation Protect? Evidence from 1880," Studies in Public Choice, in: Joshua Hall & Marcus Witcher (ed.), Public Choice Analyses of American Economic History, chapter 0, pages 87-134, Springer.
  3. Jeremy Atack & Matthew S. Jaremski & Peter L. Rousseau, 2014. "Did Railroads Make Antebellum U.S. Banks More Sound?," NBER Chapters, in: Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective, pages 149-178, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Books

  1. Atack,Jeremy & Neal,Larry (ed.), 2011. "The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521154765, October.
  2. Atack,Jeremy & Neal,Larry (ed.), 2009. "The Origins and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9780521895170, October.

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  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (13) 2003-08-24 2006-01-24 2008-10-21 2009-01-17 2009-06-10 2009-11-21 2014-04-18 2014-06-14 2017-05-21 2020-08-17 2021-04-05 2023-05-22 2023-07-17. Author is listed
  2. NEP-URE: Urban & Real Estate Economics (4) 2008-10-21 2009-01-17 2009-06-10 2021-04-05
  3. NEP-GEO: Economic Geography (3) 2009-01-17 2009-06-10 2021-04-05
  4. NEP-EFF: Efficiency & Productivity (2) 2001-05-16 2020-08-17
  5. NEP-TRE: Transport Economics (2) 2014-04-18 2014-06-14
  6. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (1) 2009-11-21
  7. NEP-CTA: Contract Theory & Applications (1) 2014-04-18
  8. NEP-GRO: Economic Growth (1) 2020-08-17
  9. NEP-INO: Innovation (1) 2006-01-24
  10. NEP-LTV: Unemployment, Inequality & Poverty (1) 1998-08-31
  11. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2023-05-22

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