American Economic History

John F. McDonald is an Emeritus Professor of Economics, at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), USA. He is also the Emeritus Gerald W. Fogelson Distinguished Professor of Real Estate at Roosevelt University, Chicago, USA. McDonald received his Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 1971 and joined the UIC faculty that year. Between 1988 and 1990 he was the Director of Research, NCI Research, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, USA. He is the author of 12 books, including Postwar Urban America (2015), Chicago: An Economic History (2016), Rethinking Macroeconomics (2022), Urban Economics and Real Estate, with D. McMillen (2012), Fundamentals of Urban Economics (1997), and Economic Analysis of an Urban Housing Market (1979). McDonald also served as editor of Urban Studies and the Journal of Real Estate Literature and was a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Urban Economics. He was elected a Fellow of the Regional Science Association International in 2008 and was awarded the David Ricardo Medal by the American Real Estate Society in 2013.

• Chapter 1.  Introduction.- Chapter 2.  The Earliest Americans.- Chapter 3.  The Development of European Colonies.- Chapter 4.  The Revolution.- Chapter 5.  Focus on Economists:  Adam Smith, Ricardo, von Thünen, and Dupuit.- Chapter 6.  The Third Founding Document and the Land Deals That Created the United States.- Chapter 7.  The Nation Under the Constitution: Creation of a Financial System.- Chapter 8.  Land Policy and Land Acquisition.- Chapter 9.  Overview of U.S. Economic Growth, 1790 – 1860.- Chapter 10.  The Transportation and Communication Revolution, Business Cycles, and Urbanization.- Chapter 11.  Focus on an Economist:  Karl Marx.- Chapter 12.  Slavery and the Path to War.- Chapter 13.  The Civil War.- Chapter 14.  Post Civil War America.- Chapter 15.  The American Economy, 1865-1914.- Chapter 16.  Nobel Prize for Economic Historians.- Chapter 17.  The Marginal Revolution in the United States.- Chapter 18.  The U.S. at the End of the Nineteenth Century.