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Globalization, De-Industrialization and Mexican Exceptionalism 1750-1879

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; González, Rafael Dobado; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

sources into those attributable to productivity events in the core and to globalization forces connecting core to periphery …

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Mughal Decline, Climate Change, and Britain's Industrial Ascent: An Integrated Perspective on India's 18th and 19th Century Deindustrialization

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Clingingsmith, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

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. India underwent secular deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005014910

Ottoman De-Industrialization 1800-1913: Assessing the Shock, Its Impact and the Response

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Pamuk, Sevket - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

market to globalization forces and rapid productivity growth in European manufacturing. Other local industries also suffered … European liberal trade policy, how much due to factory-based productivity advance in Europe, how much to declining Ottoman … to non-tradables, as well as to the unskilled wage. The impact of globalization, European productivity advance, Ottoman …

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Was It Prices, Productivity or Policy? The Timing and Pace of Latin American Industrialization after 1870

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale; Galvarriato, Aurora Gómez - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

Brazil, Mexico and a few other Latin American republics enjoyed faster industrialization after 1870 than did the rest of Latin America and even faster than the rest of the poor periphery (except East Asia). How much of this economic performance was due to more accommodating institutions and...

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The Spread of Manufacturing to the Poor Periphery 1870---2007

Bénétrix, Agustín S.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East and North Africa, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa) between 1870 and 2007. We find that although the roots of rapid peripheral industrialization stretch into the late 19th...

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Globalization and the Great Divergence: Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913

Williamson, Jeffrey Gale - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...

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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain

Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...

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Did Import Substitution Promote Growth in the Late Nineteenth Century?

Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

The positive correlation between import tariffs and economic growth across countries in the late nineteenth century suggests that tariffs may have played a causal role in promoting growth. This paper seeks to determine if high tariffs stimulated growth by shifting resources out of agriculture...

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The Worldwide Economic Impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

The paper provides a comparative history of the economic impact of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. By focussing …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079180

Tariff Incidence in America's Gilded Age

Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006

In the late nineteenth century, the United States imposed high tariffs to protect domestic manufacturers from foreign competition. This paper examines the magnitude of protection given to import-competing producers and the costs imposed on export-oriented producers by focusing on changes in the...

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