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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...

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DER STEINKOHLENBERGBAU IN DER AACHENER REGION / 1780-1860

Reckendrees, Alfred - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In the early 19th century coal mining in the region of Aachen (Prussian Rhine Province) developed to an industrial scale within few decades production was mechanised and new types of industrial organization emerged that allowed for concentration on production and economies of scale. The region...

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Partidos políticos y financiamiento político

Mauro, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

Should goverment finance political parties? According to this paper, yes. Specially in peruvian case where social conflict is frequent because this is a more efficient way to put an issue in public agenda instead of building a political party. A formal model of cost benefit is presented to...

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Social conflict, growth and factor shares

Tsoukis, Christopher; Tournemaine, Frederic - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Standard growth theory is based on atomistic agents with no strategic interactions among them. In contrast, we model growth as resulting from a one-off, strategic game between workers and owners of capital (capitalists) on factor shares, in an otherwise standard AK growth model. The resulting...

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On the Articulation of Witchcraft and Modes of Production among the Nupe, Northern Nigeria

Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

The political economy of occult belief in Africa can highlight hidden social and political conflict in times of transition which remain otherwise undetected. This has been demonstrated in taking the development of witchcraft accusations over time as indicator, and the Nupe of Northern Nigeria as...

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Growth and dispersion of accounting research about New Zealand before and during a National Research Assessment Exercise: Five decades of academic journals bibliometrics

Dixon, Keith - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Purpose – University academics are important to the discovery and dissemination of knowledge about accounting practice and accounting learning. This article explores the consequences for the Pacific society of New Zealand of how these discovery and dissemination activities have come to be...

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Does colonialism have an impact on the current language situation in Sub-Saharan Africa?

Buzasi, Katalin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Recent studies show that colonization and ethnolinguistic fragmentation have relevant long-lasting impacts on ex-colonies and might explain development and underdevelopment of different parts of the world. The aim of this paper is to connect these two strands of the literature to some extent by...

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Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies

Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...

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Romer’s Charter Cities v. Colonization, Imperialism, and Colonialism: A General Characterization

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

brutal images of failed (neo)colonialism. This essay characterizes colonization, imperialism, and colonialism in order to …, and colonialism. The characterization finds that while colonization, imperialism, and colonialism share strong historical …-city model is voluntary participation of all players. Colonization, imperialism, and colonialism were forceful and repressive …

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Pacification and Gender in Colonial Africa: Evidence from the Ethnographic Atlas

Henderson, Morgan; Whatley, Warren - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We combine the date-of-observation found in Murdock’s Ethnographic Atlas and a newly-constructed dataset on the date-of-colonization at the ethnic-group level to study the effects of the duration of colonial rule on a variety of political, economic, and social characteristics of ethnic groups...

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