‘METALLIC NERVES’: SAN FRANCISCO AND ITS HINTERLAND DURING AND AFTER THE GOLD RUSH |
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Authors: | Lionel Frost |
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Institution: | Monash University
Thanks to Jeffrey Williamson and two anonymous referees for comments on an earlier draft. Thanks to Murat Besnek for research assistance. The research for this article was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number DP0557958). |
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Abstract: | As the gateway to the Californian goldfields, San Francisco experienced a demographic shock that had a lasting impact on its economy. Some writers see San Francisco's growth as having a parasitic influence on the city's hinterland through the anti-competitive behaviour of some corporations and the destruction of natural resources. I argue that San Francisco generated more productive external effects through the formation of human and social capital in the city itself, and by investment in further resource development elsewhere in California. |
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Keywords: | N51 N81 N91 R11 California cities economic development gold rush hinterland San Francisco |
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