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三菱商事における店舗ネットワークの構造と機能：1928-36年度
岡崎, 哲二 - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2013
This paper explores the structure and function of the intra-firm trade network in Mitsubishi Corporation (Mitsubishi Shoji) from 1928 to 1936. In this period, Mitsubishi Co. substantially expanded its global branch network. Using original documents of Mitsubishi Co., we obtained the data on the...
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The Transformation of Rural Labour Systems in Colonial and Post-Colonial Northern Nigeria
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1986
The study attempts to highlight the interrelation between three central points in the ongoing debate on the political economy of development: viability, surplus, and class-formation. A case study of the develop¬ment of rural labour systems in Northern Nigeria is meant to provide both a better...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789919
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Flexibility and protectionism. Swedish trade in sugar during the early modern era
Rönnbäck, Klas - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2006
Sugar was of the utmost importance for the development of a transatlantic trade during the early modern era. This working paper explores the impact of institutions and institutional changes of the colonial trade in sugar focusing on one country on the European semi-periphery, namely Sweden....
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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
Albouy, David - Institute of Business and Economic Research (IBER), … - 2006
In a seminal contribution, Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson (2001) evaluate the effect of property rights institutions on national income using estimated mortality rates of early European settlers as an instrument for the risk of capital expropriation. Returning to their original sources, I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818079
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Commitment and Conquest: The Case of British Rule in India
Oak, Mandar; Swamy, Anand V. - Economics Department, Williams College - 2010
Contemporary historians usually attribute the East India Company's military success in India to its military strength …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008520345
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Myopia or strategic behavior? Indian regimes and the East India Company in late eighteenth century India
Oak, Mandar; Swamy, Anand V. - In: Explorations in Economic History 49 (2012) 3, pp. 352-366
The East India Company's conquest of India was facilitated by the behavior of its Indian rivals who not only did not … Mysore War, and find that the Company's allies were not myopic. The British parliament had, in 1784, passed Pitt's India Act …, which limited the scope for unprovoked military aggression by the Company in India. This had changed the behavior of the …
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Commitment and Conquest: The Case of British Rule in India
Oak, Mandar; Swamy, Anand V. - Center for Development Economics, Williams College - 2010
Contemporary historians usually attribute the East India Company's military success in India to its military strength …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008852791
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Colonialism and Industrialization: Empirical Results
Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998
This paper presents theory and evidence to show that imperialism was a major factor impeding the spread of the industrial revolution during the century ending in the 1950s. Two empirical results stand out. First, analysis of historical evidence shows that most sovereign countries were...
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States, Market and Cricket: The Political Economy of Globalization in India
Halder, Avipsu - In: Jadavpur Journal of International Relations 18 (2014) 1, pp. 63-83
The article unravels the globalizing process in the context of cricket in India. It traces the process of the gameâ …
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Kang Youwei’s Journey to India: Chinese Discourse on India During the Late Qing and Republican Periods
Xi, Liu - In: China Report 48 (2012) 1-2, pp. 171-185
This paper examines Kang Youwei’s perception of India as well as his impact on the Chinese discourse on India during … Qichao and other students on [the fact that] the Fall of India [as an independent country] was due to the Independence of Its … was in Darjeeling in May 1902. Kang was keen to diagnose India’s collapse to British colonialism for the purpose of …
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