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Atlantic Metropolis

An Economic History of New York City

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Authors:
  1. Aaron Gurwitz

    1. New York, USA

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  • Views New York City through the neglected lens of urban economic history
  • Explains how, when, and why economic life in New York City evolved
  • Presents an overview of New York's economic history in a single volume

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History (AEH)

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This book applies the contents of a working economist’s tool-kit to explain, clearly and intuitively, when and why over the course of four centuries individuals, families, and enterprises decided to locate in or around the lower Hudson River Valley.  Collectively those millions of decisions have made New York one of the twenty-first century’s few truly global cities.  A recurrent analytic theme of this work is that the ups and downs of New York’s trajectory are best understood in the context of what was happening elsewhere in the broader Atlantic world. Readers will find that the Atlantic perspective viewed through an economic lens goes a long way toward clarifying otherwise quite perplexing historical events and trends. 

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Introduction 1600–1815: From Pre-Contact to the Treaty of Vienna

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3
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    2. Beverstad

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 5-62

    3. An Island in the Center of Its Hinterland

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 63-91

    4. Port and Entrepôt

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 93-122

  3. Introduction 1815–1924: The Displaced Nineteenth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-133
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    2. Catastrophic Agglomeration

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 135-147

    3. A Port in Time

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 149-187

    4. Manufacturing Employment at Mid-Century

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 189-232

    5. Huddled Masses of Rational Optimizers

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 233-245

    6. The Attractions of the Slums

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 247-274

    7. Money Central

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 275-299

    8. Global City, Mark 1

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 301-322

    9. Perfectly Matched and Perfectly Timed

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 323-358

  4. Introduction 1924–~1979: The Short Twentieth Century

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 359-367
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    2. A Global City in a Less and Less Integrated World

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 369-400

    3. New York’s Great Depression: The Delayed Fade

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 401-447

    4. Social Democracy and Suburbanization

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 449-499

    5. All That Is Solid Melts into Air

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 501-535

    6. The Perfect Storm and the Turning Point

      • Aaron Gurwitz
      Pages 537-565
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Authors and Affiliations

  • New York, USA

    Aaron Gurwitz

About the author

Aaron Gurwitz’s interest in his home town’s history began to germinate in the early 1980s he managed the Regional Economics group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  He pursued this interest as an avocation through three decades while working as an economist and strategist at a series of global investment banks.  Since his retirement from that career in 2012 he has been able to devote most of his time to this subject, as an adjunct faculty member at local colleges and as the author of this volume.  He earned his PhD in economics with a specialization in urban and regional analysis at Stanford University, USA.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Atlantic Metropolis

  • Book Subtitle: An Economic History of New York City

  • Authors: Aaron Gurwitz

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in American Economic History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13352-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13351-1Published: 26 June 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-13354-2Published: 13 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-13352-8Published: 13 June 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2662-3900

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-3919

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 737

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Economic History, Urban Economics, US History, Urban History, Modern History

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