Buch(elektronisch)2019

Atlantic Metropolis: An Economic History of New York City

In: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History Ser.

Gurwitz, Aaron

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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Prologue -- Part I Introduction 1600-1815: From Pre-Contact to the Treaty of Vienna -- 1 Beverstad -- Two Late Woodlands Cultures -- Commonalities -- Distinctions -- Early Modern Europe -- Labor and Land -- Transformations -- Dutch Exceptionalism -- Under and Over the Water -- The Business of Geopolitics -- Expensive Labor -- New Netherland -- The Beaver Pelt Market -- Demand -- Supply -- Market Mechanisms: The Economics of Wampum -- Market Structure -- Which Indians' Territories? -- Which Market Centers? -- Which European Merchants? -- The WIC's Search for a Business Model -- The Peopling Problem -- Equilibrium Market Structure -- The Population: Who Came? Who Didn't? Why? -- The Pull: Why the Fur Trade Mattered Most -- The Push -- Demographic Diversity -- The Market for Land or What Did 24 Signify? -- The New Amsterdam Economy at the End of the Dutch Rule -- References -- 2 An Island in the Center of Its Hinterland -- Sugar and the Atlantic Economy -- Economic Takeoff -- The Preconditions -- The Primary and Supplementary Growth Sectors -- Derived Growth Sectors -- The New York Hinterland's Slow Start -- Farmland and Farmers -- To the Manor Borne? -- A Central Place -- How "Central" Was New York City -- The Political Economy of Centrality -- References -- 3 Port and Entrepôt -- The Risks -- Spreading the Risks -- Selecting Ventures and Counterparties: Information Asymmetries and Business Networks -- Public Policy: Helpful vs. Unhelpful, Effective vs. Ineffective -- Geopolitics -- "Mercantilism" -- Monetary Policy Avant la Lettre -- Early Republican Financial Policy -- Colonial Era Public Policy: An Assessment -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Introduction 1815-1924: The Displaced Nineteenth Century -- 4 Catastrophic Agglomeration -- The Centripetal Tip.

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Part I: Pre-contact to the Treaty of Vienna -- 1. Beverstad -- 2. An Island in the Center of its Hinterland -- 3. Port and Entrepot -- Part II: The Displaced Nineteenth Century -- 4. Catastrophic Agglomeration -- 5. A Port in Time -- 6. Manufacturing Employment at Mid-Century -- 7. Huddled Masses of Rational Optimizers -- 8. The Attractions of the Slums -- 9. Money Central -- 10. Global City, Mark 1 -- 11. Perfectly Matched and Perfectly Timed -- Part III: The Short Twentieth Century -- 12. Global City in a Less Integrated World -- 13. New York's Great Depression: The Delayed Fade -- 14. Social Democracy and Suburbanization -- 15. All that is Solid Melts into Air -- 16. The Perfect Storm and the Turning Point -- 17. Resurgent Cities -- 18. America's Global City -- 19. A City of Niches and Enclaves