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The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1999

This paper uses a new pre-1940 Third World data base documenting real wages and relative factor prices to explore their … wages to land rents, on the other hand, declined up to World War I and so did the ratio of wages to GDP per capita. The …

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Factor Endowments : Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies

Engerman, Stanley L. - 1994

World economies. Since all New World societies enjoyed high levels of product per capita early in their histories, the …-inclusive list of New World colonies with these conditions were the British settlements in the northern part of the North American …

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The Meaning of Money in the Great Depression

Rockoff, Hugh - 1993

The quality of the money stock declined during the banking crises of the early 1930s. Bank deposits did not serve as a secure short- term store of purchasing power for use in an emergency as well as they had previously, and during the periods of restricted deposits in late 1932 and early 1933,...

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The Evolution of Global Labor Markets Since 1830 Background Evidence and Hypotheses

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 1992

regimes: 1830 to the late 1850s, the 1850s to World War I, the interwar decades, and the post-World War II experience. Third …

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