A New Balance of Payments for the United States 1790 1919 By Lawrence H. Officer
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A New Balance of Payments for the United States, 1790–1919 by Lawrence H. Officer focuses on constructing a brand-new, comprehensive statistical framework for America's balance of payments before official government tracking began. [1]
The historical and economic topics covered in the book are grouped into the following logical areas:
Methodology & Critical Critique
- Critique of existing data: Evaluates previous historical economic tables and highlights the core data limitations of the Office of Business Economics (OBE) and its North-Simon-Goldsmith foundations. [1, 2]
- Measurement decisions: Outlines the specific choices, corrections, and logic used to construct and improve upon previous historical time-series data. [1]
International Movements & Time Series
- Movement of people: Covers migration data, including free immigrants and the economics of the slave trade.
- Movement of goods: Examines historical merchandise trade data and develops new Terms of Trade metrics for goods and services.
- Movement of funds: Analyzes unilateral transfers, including private immigrant remittances, migrant funds, head taxes, and government transfers like territorial acquisitions and indemnities.
- Provision of services: Quantifies international service transactions and shipping revenues. [1, 2, 3]
Sector-Specific & Structural Analysis
- The slave trade: Evaluates slave imports as a balance-of-payments debit item, calculating owner costs and foreign vs. domestic ship revenue. [1, 2]
- Shipping & ship sales: Covers merchant marine transportation revenues and international ship sales. [1, 2]
- Manufacturing & travel: Investigates how international travel and manufacturing sectors weighted into the broader U.S. comparative advantage shift from services to goods. [1, 2]
- Macroeconomic aggregates: Evaluates the aggregate structure and health of the early U.S. economy using the newly synthesized balance-of-payments table. [1]
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