Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2013
Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large – varying by as much as a factor of 35 across countries (Hall and Jones 1999). These differentials mostly reflect the "Great Divergence" (Sam Huntingon) – the fact that Western Europe and former European colonies grew rapidly...