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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 …
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India'S De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
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 …
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Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England
Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - 2021
During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles. This paper argues that the expansion of domestic textile production is best understood as a path- dependent process that was initiated by the proetction provided by the Embargo...
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Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
Arthi, Vellore; Lampe, Markus; Nair, Ashwin; O'Rourke, … - 2022
What is the impact of trade policy in developing countries? We address the question in the context of interwar India …
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The Paper Money of Colonial North Carolina, 1712–74 : Reconstructing the Evidence
Cutsail, Cory - 2018
Beginning in 1712, North Carolina's assembly emitted its own paper money and maintained some amount of paper money in public circulation for the rest of the colonial period. Yet, data on colonial North Carolina's paper money regime in the current literature are thin and often erroneous. We...
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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...
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The Profitabality of Colonialism
Iyigun, Murat; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021
extralegal appropriation, that determine the profitability of colonialism. The analysis suggests why historically some countries …
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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...
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American Colonial Incomes, 1650-1774
Lindert, Peter H. - 2014
New data now allow conjectures on the levels of real and nominal incomes in the thirteen American colonies. New England was the poorest region, and the South was the richest. Colonial per capita incomes rose only very slowly, and slowly for five reasons: productivity growth was slow; population...
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Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the British agree to have American representation in Parliament and quickly settle the dispute peacefully? At first glance, it would appear that a deal could have been reached to share...
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