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Historical Legacies and African Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2018
As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus is remarkably interdisciplinary. Archives,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480929
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
effort that was completed in Palau but interrupted elsewhere by World War II. Within Micronesia robust economic development … were important for economic development, results that are confirmed when using a similar approach with British Colonies in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462106
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
beliefs precedence over other aspects of belief systems. Historical work finds that doctrines of race came into their own in … the colonies that became the US after, not before, slavery; that out of the "scandal of empire" in India emerged a "race … race. Racial ideology shaped categories and perceptions in ways that we show can give rise to equilibrium fictions. In our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462860
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474530
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Finding Eldorado : Slavery and Long-run Development in Colombia
Acemoglu, Daron; García Jimeno, Camilo; Robinson, James A. - 2012
investigate the impact of slavery on long-run development in Colombia. Our identification strategy compares municipalities that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460483
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The Myth of the Frontier
García Jimeno, Camilo; Robinson, James A. - 2009
One of the most salient explanations for the distinctive path of economic and political development of the United … better were these institutions. In essence, Turner saw the frontier as having positive effects on development because he …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463873
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462831
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development : An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
Albouy, David Y. - 2008
In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) argue property-rights institutions powerfully affect national income, using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers to instrument capital expropriation risk. However 36 of the 64 countries in their sample are assigned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464515
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464570
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Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution : Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811
Grubb, Farley - 2008
The U.S. Constitution removed real and monetary trade barriers between the states. By contrast, these states when they were British colonies exercised considerable real and monetary autonomy over their borders. Purchasing power parity is used to measure how much economic integration between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464810