Fourie, Johan; Fintel, Dieter - In: Economic History Review 67 (2014) 4, pp. 932-963
type="main" <p>The institutional literature emphasizes local conditions in explaining divergent colonial development. We posit that this view can be enriched by an important supply-side cause: the skills with which the settlers arrive. The Huguenots who arrived at the Cape Colony in 1688/9, we...</p>