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Outside Options, Coercion, and Wages : Removing the Sugar Coating
Dippel, Christian - 2015
to working outside the formal sector. Using unique data for 14 British West Indies ‘sugar islands' from the year of slave …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027691
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Tariff Incidence : Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2014
duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and … sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive price of raw sugar in New York City from 1890 to 1930, a time when … the United States consumed more than 20 percent of world sugar production and was therefore plausibly a "large" country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044624
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A Study of Exclusionary Coalitions : The Canadian Sugar Coalition, 1888–1889
Asker, John - 2019
customers—that share the benefits of exclusion. As a particular historical example, we study the Canadian sugar industry of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870053
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Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program
Weidenmier, Marc - 2015
The recent world energy crisis raises serious questions about the extent to which the United States should increase domestic oil production and develop alternative sources of energy. We examine the energy developments in Brazil as an important experiment. Brazil has reduced its share of imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012750098
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The Political Economy of Controls : American Sugar
Krueger, Anne O. - 2021
examines the evolution of the American sugar program from 1934 to 1987 in the light of these models. While lobbying and other … developed, and complexity of regulation served as an important factor perpetuating the sugar program. Similarly, lobbying and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229366
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779210
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907766
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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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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 19th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. Other local industries also suffered some decline, and India underwent secular...
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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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