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Exports and Slow Economic Growth in the Lower South Region, 1720-1800

Mancall, Peter C.; Rosenbloom, Joshua L.; Weiss, Thomas - 2021

For the past generation scholars have emphasized that the Lower South was one of the most economically successful regions of British mainland North America, and perhaps the most successful. Planters, the primary economic actors, made extensive use of slave labor and created a successful...

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The Challenges of Economic Maturity : New England, 1880 - 1940

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 2021

This paper provides an account of the complex changes taking place within New England in the years from 1880 to 1940. After 1880, technological changes and market shifts undermined the sources of comparative advantage that had promoted the concentration of textile and footwear production within...

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Trends in Regional Inequality in China

Jian, Tianlun; Sachs, Jeffrey D.; Warner, Andrew M. - 2021

Several recent studies have examined the tendency of regions within a nation to exhibit long-term convergence in per … capita income levels. Barro and Sala-i-Martin (1991, 1992, 1995) have found a tendency towards convergence among the U … convergence among the provinces of China during the period 1952-1993. We find that real income convergence of provinces in China …

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