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society. Our chapter revises the standard Tocquevillian account of associational freedom in the early United States by …
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The Inca Empire was the last of a long series of highly developed cultures in pre-colonial South America. It stretched across parts of the current territories of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and the whole of Peru. The Inca Road was its 30,000-kilometer-long transportation system....
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The rise of education has featured prominently in the debate on the sources of modern long-term economic growth. Existing accounts stress the positive role of public education and the importance of political support for its provision. We argue that such an explanation for the spread of schooling...
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which the United States eliminated corruption. This paper examines the concept of corruption in American history; tracing …
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history suggests that the usury laws, when tightly drawn, may have had a larger impact than economic historians have generally …
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which could intervene in the gold market to shield the domestic economy from external conditions. We proceed by identifying … separate supply' shocks, money supply shocks and demand shocks using a Blanchard-Quah methodology. We model the economy as a … small open economy on the gold standard and identify the shocks by imposing long run restrictions on the impact of the …
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potential long-run impact on individuals over decades and even generations. History, however, offers a solution. Historical …
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This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions in urban economics. This …
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, assimilation of immigrants into US economy and society, and the effect of immigration on the labor market … natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to integrate into US society and lower wages for existing workers. This …
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that they posed a threat to competition and even to society; (4) The data link the disappearance of business groups to … new ones. Thus, a multi-pronged reform agenda, sustained by a supportive political climate, created an economy of …
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