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Growing, Shrinking, and Long Run Economic Performance : Historical Perspectives on Economic Development
Broadberry, Stephen - 2017
Using annual data from the thirteenth century to the present, we show that improved long run economic performance has occurred primarily through a decline in the rate and frequency of shrinking, rather than through an increase in the rate of growing. Indeed, as economic performance has improved...
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
framework, technology, contacts with the outside world, and changes in power and wealth matter not just directly but because …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462860
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The European Origins of Economic Development
Easterly, William - 2012
Although a large literature argues that European settlement outside of Europe shaped institutional, educational, technological, cultural, and economic outcomes, researchers have been unable to directly assess these predictions because of an absence of data on colonial European settlement. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460499
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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011
that accelerated even more up to 1950-1975. What explains the spread of the industrial revolution world-wide and this … to have taken resource advantages away from the European and North American leaders, and integrating world financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461848
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Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
Alston, Lee J. - 2009
The future looked bright for Argentina in the early twentieth century. It had already achieved high levels of income per capita and was moving away from authoritarian government towards a more open democracy. Unfortunately, Argentina never finished the transition. The turning point occurred in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463440
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China--the past experience and the future prospects. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459015
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The Female Labor Force and Long-run Development : The American Experience in Comparative Perspective
Olivetti, Claudia - 2013
This paper provides additional evidence on the U-shaped relationship between the process of economic development and women's labor force participation. The experience of the United States is studied in a comparative perspective relative to a sample of rich economies observed over the period...
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The Link Between Fundamentals and Proximate Factors in Development
Keller, Wolfgang - 2013
The paper introduces a framework for studying the hierarchy of growth factors, from deep to more immediate. The specific setting we examine is 18th and 19th century Germany, when institutional changes introduced by reforms and transportation improvements converged to create city growth. We...
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The decline of Latin American economies : growth, institutions, and crises
Edwards, Sebastian (ed.) - 2007
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Commodity Price Volatility and World Market Integration since 1700
Jacks, David S. - 2009
of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … been associated with much greater commodity price volatility, while world market integration associated with peace and pro … never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the …
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