Labor Scarcity and the Problem of American Industrial Efficiency in the 1850's: A Comment

Ian M. Drummond

The Journal of Economic History, 1967, vol. 27, issue 3, 383-390

Abstract: In a recent issue of this Journal Peter Temin has offered a challenging analysis of American labor scarcity and the choice of technology. He deserves our gratitude for attempting to increase the analytical rigor in discussions of this matter, but his analysis is puzzling and, I think, profoundly misleading. This note is meant as a comment upon certain of its oddities.

Date: 1967
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