American Economic Growth Before 1840: An Exploratory Essay

George Rogers Taylor

The Journal of Economic History, 1964, vol. 24, issue 4, 427-444

Abstract: In developing the subject of this paper, “American Economic Growth before 1840,” I shall, relying for the most part on familiar materials, propose the hypothesis that economic growth per capita in the thirteen colonies of Britain in America advanced at a relatively rapid rate from about 1710 to 1775.1 shall also suggest that the level of living remained relatively low in these colonies as late as about 1710 and that for the new nation output per capita over the years 1775 to 1840 improved slowly if at all.

Date: 1964
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