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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Timeline -- 1 The American Entertainment Industry in the Twentieth Century -- 2 Vaudeville: The Original Variety Show -- 3 Technology Transforms Entertainment: The Dawn of Recorded Sound -- 4 Motion Pictures and the Rise of Big Business in Entertainment -- 5 The Radio Revolutionizes Entertainment -- 6 Television: The New Vaudeville -- 7 Spectator Sports and the Viewing American Public -- 8 A Century of Change and a Springboard to the Future -- 9 Personalities Who Changed the American Entertainment Landscape -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index.

The era of free banking in the state of New York featured the competitive issue of money by banks. The results of this research provide support for the argument that banking during this period was not an anomaly, but an example of the effects of competition in a free market. This is done by establishing a link between bank reputations and the discount at which their notes traded. Quality is important and can be discerned through the use of reputations as a proxy, and thus can act as a stabilizing force in competitive markets where quality is difficult to recognize.

Family reconstitution data: a cliometric view -- History of cliometrics -- Growth theories -- Cliometric approaches to war -- GDP and convergence in modern times -- Cliometrics and the great depression -- Financial Systems -- Cliometric approaches to international trade -- Time series -- The industrial revolution: a cliometric perspective -- The cliometric study of financial panics and crashes.