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Services in the Domestic Economy and in World Transactions

Kravis, Irving B. - 2021

A new interest in the role of services in world transactions has been generated by the current efforts of the U. S …. Government to reduce barriers to international trade in services.The paper distinguishes four different classifications of … economic activities between services and corrmodities. Service industries -- those producing non-storable outputs -- have been …

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Fear of Service Outsourcing : Is it Justified?

Amiti, Mary; Wei, Shang-Jin - 2022

The recent media and political attention on service outsourcing from developed to developing countries gives the impression that outsourcing is exploding. As a result, workers in industrial countries are anxious about job losses. This paper aims to establish what are the hypes and what are the...

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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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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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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 British colonial government assigned property rights in land and taxes to landlords whereas in others it assigned them directly to cultivators or non-landlords. Although Banerjee and...

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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 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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Reinventing the Wheel : The Economic Benefits of Wheeled Transportation in Early British Colonial West Africa

Chaves, Isaias N. - 2013

One of the great puzzles of Sub-Saharan African economic history is that wheeled transportation was barely used prior to the colonial period. Instead, head porterage was the main method of transportation. The consensus among historians is that this was a rational adaption to the underlying...

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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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