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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468107
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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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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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466048
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The defining moment : the Great Depression and the American economy in the twentieth century
Bordo, Michael D. (ed.); Goldin, Claudia (ed.);  … - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013480824
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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,...
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
Several studies link modern economic performance to institutions transplanted by European colonizers and here we extend this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan...
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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
the colonies that became the US after, not before, slavery; that out of the "scandal of empire" in India emerged a "race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462860
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The Myth of the Frontier
García-Jimeno, Camilo - 2009
One of the most salient explanations for the distinctive path of economic and political development of the United States is captured by the 'Frontier (or Turner) thesis'. Turner argued that it was the presence of the open frontier which explained why the United States became democratic and, at...
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