to personal relations such as kinship. We examine poverty and famine relief, infrastructure, and forestry in East Asia …

economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able … those issues that the market did not? To what extent did those solutions reflect the structure of an economy? Public Goods … Provision in the Early Modern Economy explores these questions by investigating efforts made for the provision of "public goods …

infrastructure investment and the productivity of the economy. On the other hand, evidence in the PRC suggests a cross …The recent experience of infrastructure investment in the People's Republic of China (PRC) suggests an intertwined … infrastructure investment, which then drives economic growth via various channels including reducing transaction costs and raising …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …