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Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation
Ashraf, Quamrul - 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored. Building on the role of deeply-rooted biogeographical forces in...
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Convergence and Modernization Revisited
Barro, Robert J. - 2012
particularly the incorporation of China and India into the world market economy. For 29 countries since 1919, the levels and trends …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460366
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Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2019
Why did per capita income divergence occur so dramatically during the 19th Century, rather than at the outset of the Industrial Revolution? How were some countries able to reverse this trend during the globalization of the late 20th Century? To answer these questions, this paper develops a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479692
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462955
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Occupational Choice and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doepke, Matthias - 2007
The British Industrial Revolution triggered a reversal in the social order of society whereby the landed elite was … children's preferences in response to economic incentives. This results in the stratification of society along occupational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465739
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How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
Voigtländer, Nico - 2011
Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and ensuring that a substantial proportion remained celibate, the "European Marriage Pattern" (EMP) reduced childbirths by up to one third between the 14th and 18th century. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461343
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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement
Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection … between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production … Revolution. We argue that structural transformation alters the distribution of power in society and enables groups with distinct …
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Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run
Jones, Charles I. - 1999
This paper studies a growth model that is able to match several key facts of economic history. For thousands of years, the average standard of living seems to have risen very little, despite increases in the level of technology and large increases in the level of the population. Then, after...
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When, Where, and Why? Early Industrialization in the Poor Periphery 1870-1940
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2010
This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over these seven critical...
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Globalization and the Great Divergence : Terms of Trade Booms and Volatility in the Poor Periphery 1782-1913
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 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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