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Economic History or History of Economics? A Review Essay on Sylvia Nasar's Grand Pursuit : The Story of Economic Genius

Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012

an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists' stories inserted in appropriate places …. Nasar's goal is to show how economists work, but also to show that they are people too – with more than enough warts and …'s remarkably different conception in The Worldly Philosophers. I also discuss more generally the question of why economists might …

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A Generation of Italian Economists

Nano, Enrico; Panizza, Ugo; Viarengo, Martina - 2021

trajectories, and labor market outcomes of a generation of Italian economists with special focus on gender gaps and the role of …

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Lessons from the Laureates

Breit, William - 2009

This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...

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Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas

Maloney, William F. - 2014

Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...

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Two to Tangle : Financial Development, Political Instability and Economic Growth in Argentina (1896-2000)

Campos, Nauro; Karanasos, Menelaos; Tan, Bin - 2021

This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...

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Is Industrialization Conducive to Long-Run Prosperity?

Franck, Raphaël - 2015

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...

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China'S Great Boom as a Historical Process

Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2021

Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...

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Escaping from Hunger Before WW1 : Nutrition and Living Standards in Western Europe and USA in the Late Nineteenth Century

Gazeley, Ian - 2017

We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...

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Real Wages, Working Time, and the Great Depression : What Does Micro Evidence Tell Us?

Hart, Robert A. - 2010

Based largely on industry-level aggregate statistics, the prevailing view, and one that has strongly influenced macroeconomic thought, is that real wages during the cycle containing the Great Depression are either acyclical or countercyclical. Does this finding hold-up when more micro data are...

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