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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence
Clingingsmith, David - 2004
India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … 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 …
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International Transactions : Real Trade and Factor Flows between 1700 and 1870
Keller, Wolfgang - 2020
differences in specialization and income emerged. To understand the contribution of global market forces, as well as colonialism …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482046
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U.S. Trade Policy in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A. - 2019
This survey reviews the broad changes in U.S. trade policy over the course of the nation's history. Import tariffs have been the main instrument of trade policy and have had three main purposes: to raise revenue for the government, to restrict imports and protect domestic producers from foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480200
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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2005
In his seminal publications between the 1930s and 1960s, Frederick Lane offered three hypotheses regarding the impact of the Voyages of Discovery that have guided debate ever since. First, pepper and other spice prices did not rise in European markets in the century before the 1490s, and thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466787
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The Smoot-Hawley Trade War
Mitchener, Kris; Wandschneider, Kirsten; O'Rourke, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We document the outbreak of a trade war after the U.S. adopted the Smoot-Hawley tariff in June 1930. U.S. trade partners initially protested the possible implementation of the sweeping tariff legislation, with many eventually choosing to retaliate by increasing their tariffs on imports from the...
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Cantoni, Davide - 2012
We present new data documenting medieval Europe's "Commercial Revolution'' using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...
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Historical Legacies and African Development
Michalopoulos, Stelios - 2018
As Africa's role on the global stage is rising, so does the need to understand the shadow of history on the continent's economy and polity. We discuss recent works that shed light on Africa's colonial and precolonial legacies. The emerging corpus is remarkably interdisciplinary. Archives,...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462106
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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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Equilibrium Fictions : A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
Hoff, Karla - 2010
the colonies that became the US after, not before, slavery; that out of the "scandal of empire" in India emerged a "race …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462860