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Origen y evolucion de la manufactura en el interior. El caso de Bahía Blanca
Valentina, Viego - EconWPA - 2005
Bahía Blanca has been posed as the main Southern city of the country (both in population and economic terms) by various works in the field of economic geography. In particular, it has been emphasized its leading manufacturing sector (historically oriented to exports) and its role as center of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125838
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The Roads To and From Serfdom
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … into slavery, to a force behind the transition from slavery to free labor. Our model also explains several other historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125014
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The Roads To and From Serfdom
Lagerlof, Nils-Petter - EconWPA - 2002
The institution of slavery displays a puzzling historical pattern: it is found mostly at intermediate stages of … agrarian stages. We explain this rise-and- fall pattern of slavery in a growth model with land and labor as inputs in … into slavery, to a force behind the transition from slavery to free labor. Our model also explains several other historical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125652
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Slave Redemption When it Takes Time to Redeem Slaves
Rogers, Carol Ann; Swinnerton, Kenneth A - EconWPA - 2005
program can slow the flow of people into the actual state of slavery, but at the same time can increase the number of people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005550973
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Trading Population for Productivity
Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - EconWPA - 2004
This research argues that the rapid expansion of international trade in the second phase of the industrial revolution has played a significant role in the timing of demographic transitions across countries and has thereby been a major determinant of the distribution of world population and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125617
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Das Human Kapital: A Theory of the Demise of the Class Structure
Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - EconWPA - 2004
This paper hypothesizes that the demise of the 19th century's European class structure reflects a deliberate transformation of society orchestrated by the capitalists. Contrary to conventional wisdom, it argues that the demise of this class structure was an outcome of a cooperative, rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408259
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A New Account of Personalization and Effective Communication
Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003
To contribute to understanding of information economies of daily life, this paper explores over the past millennium given names of a large number of persons. Analysts have long both condemned and praised mass media as a source of common culture, national unity, or shared symbolic experiences....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408385
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British Industrialization and the Profit Constraint Hypothesis: The Case of a Manchester Cotton Enterprise, 1798-1827
Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996
period, this paper shows that the scale of operation was too small. The findings suggests that industrialization could have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556874
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Accumulation, industrialization and the peasantry : a reinterpretation of the Tanzanian experience
Wuyts, Wuyts, M.E. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730489
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Economic structure, trade and regions
Helmsing, Helmsing, A.H.J. - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 1984
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010730584