caa a22 4500 388069171 CHVBK 20180307125142.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199903 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0022050700022270 doi S0022050700022270 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0022050700022270 Was Ecomomic Growth Likely in Colonial British North America? [Elektronische Daten] Conventional wisdom holds that output per capita in colonial British America increased between 0.3 and 0.6 percent per year. Our conjectural estimates challenge this view, suggesting instead that such growth was unlikely. We show that the most likely rate of economic growth was much lower, probably close to zero. We argue further that to understand the performance of the colonial economy it is necessary to include the economic activity of Native American Indians. When this is done, we estimate that the economy may have grown at the rate suggested by previous researchers. Copyright © The Economic History Association 1999 Mancall Peter C. Peter C. Mancall is Professor, Department of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2113. Weiss Thomas Thomas Weiss is professor, Department of Economics, University of Kansas; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; and Executive Director, Economic History Association. The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/1(1999-03), 17-40 0022-0507 59:1<17 1999 59 JEH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700022270 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Mancall Peter C. Peter C. Mancall is Professor, Department of History, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-2113 NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Weiss Thomas Thomas Weiss is professor, Department of Economics, University of Kansas; Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research; and Executive Director, Economic History Association NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic History Cambridge University Press 59/1(1999-03), 17-40 0022-0507 59:1<17 1999 59 JEH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge