Development of the American Economy.

• Position: Program and Working Group Meetings

The NBER's Program on the Development of the American Economy, directed by Claudia Goldin of Harvard University, met in Cambridge on March 1, 2014. The following papers were discussed:

* Robert Margo, Boston University and NBER, "Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Solution to the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem" (NBER Working Paper No. 19147)

* Peter Lindert, University of California, Davis and NBER, and Jeffrey Williamson, University of Wisconsin, Madison and NBER, "American Incomes 1650-1870: New Evidence, Controlled Conjectures"

* Joshua Rosenbloom, University of Kansas and NBER, "Forging a Research Mission for the University of Kansas"

* Carl Kitchens, University of Mississippi and NBER, and Price Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER, "Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940" (NBER Working Paper No. 19743)

* Douglass North...