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British Colonial Institutions and Economic Development in India

Kapur, Shilpi - 2006

We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India. In some regions, the …

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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence

Clingingsmith, David - 2004

India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …

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The Impact of Interwar Protection : Evidence from India

Arthi, Vellore - 2020

Research on the quantitative impact of interwar protection on trade flows remains scarce, and much of it has concluded that the impact was surprisingly small. In this paper we ask: Did Indian interwar protection hurt UK manufacturers, by raising tariffs on manufactured imports? Or did it favour...

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Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 2002

During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles. This paper argues that the expansion of domestic textile production is best understood as a path- dependent process that was initiated by the proetction provided by the Embargo...

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Precautionary Protectionism

Traiberman, Sharon; Rotemberg, Martin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We develop a dynamic extension of Dornbusch et al. (1977) with "rustiness": the home country has relatively higher unit costs tomorrow for goods it is not producing today. We solve for optimal tariff policy when there is a potential for a crisis: an increase in demand for goods produced abroad....

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The Paper Money of Colonial North Carolina, 1712–74 : Reconstructing the Evidence

Cutsail, Cory - 2018

Beginning in 1712, North Carolina's assembly emitted its own paper money and maintained some amount of paper money in public circulation for the rest of the colonial period. Yet, data on colonial North Carolina's paper money regime in the current literature are thin and often erroneous. We...

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Large Scale Institutional Changes : Land Demarcation Within the British Empire

Libecap, Gary D. - 2010

This paper examines the economics of large scale institutional change by studying the adoption of the land demarcation practices within the British Empire during the 17th through 19th Centuries. The advantages of systematic, coordinated demarcation, such as with the rectangular survey, relative...

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Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution

Clark, Gregory - 2008

For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...

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The Profitabality of Colonialism

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1993

extralegal appropriation, that determine the profitability of colonialism. The analysis suggests why historically some countries …

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Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution

Galiani, Sebastian - 2016

Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the British agree to have American representation in Parliament and quickly settle the dispute peacefully? At first glance, it would appear that a deal could have been reached to share...

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