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India'S De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
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 … the huge net transfer from India to Britain before 1815. Whether the Indian de-industrialization shocks and responses were …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771672
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Mughal Decline, Climate Change, and Britain'S Industrial Ascent : An Integrated Perspective on India'S 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization
Clingingsmith, David; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2021
deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output in 1750, this figure had fallen to … only 2 percent by 1900. We ask how much of India's deindustrialization was due to local supply-side forces -- such as …India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218826
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Estimating the Recession-Mortality Relationship When Migration Matters
Arthi, Vellore - 2017
A large literature following Ruhm (2000) suggests that mortality falls during recessions and rises during booms. The panel-data approach used to generate these results assumes that either there is no substantial migration response to temporary changes in local economic conditions, or that any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954452
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249366
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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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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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Learning-by-Producing and the Geographic Links between Invention and Production : Experience from the Second Industrial Revolution
Sutthiphisal, Dhanoos - 2010
This paper investigates the impact of iexcl;sect;learning-by-producingiexcl; ̈ on inventive activity and shows that, in both emerging (electrical equipment and supplies) and maturing (shoes and textiles) industries, the geographic association between invention and production was rather weak...
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Property Rights and Financial Development : The Legacy of Japanese Colonial Institutions
Yoo, Dongwoo - 2010
Several studies link modern economic performance to institutions transplanted by European colonizers and here we extend this line of research to Asia. Japan imposed its system of well-defined property rights in land on some of its Asian colonies, including Korea, Taiwan and Palau. In 1939 Japan...
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The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2011
We examine the long-run consequences of ethnic partitioning, a neglected aspect of the Scramble for Africa, and uncover the following regularities. First, apart from the land mass and presence of water bodies, historical homelands of split and non-split groups are similar across many observable...
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