Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 2,040
Cover Image
The Colonial Origins of the Industrial Revolution
Cordoba, Juan Carlos - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006
, and urbanization of the Empire. The significantly larger territorial size of the Colony guarantees its eventual …. The increased population size of the Empire and particularly its high rate of urbanization – both legacy of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069299
Cover Image
Growth Effects of a Comprehensive Measure of Globalization with Country Specific Time Series Data
Rao, B. - 2017
Many studies have estimated the growth effects of globalization where globalization was measured with a few economic variables, ignoring its social and political dimensions. Recently Dreher (2006) has developed a comprehensive measure of globalization with several variables from the economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966200
Cover Image
How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
Kohn, Meir - 2010
Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135194
Cover Image
Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051452
Cover Image
Engineers, Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F. - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present in come differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052454
Cover Image
Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
Cover Image
Financing the Capital Development of the Economy : A Keynes-Schumpeter-Minsky Synthesis
Mazzucato, Mariana - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023068
Cover Image
Financial Systems and Economic Development in Historical Perspective
Fohlin, Caroline - 2014
This paper elucidates the key debates surrounding the optimal design of financial systems and institutions: bank-based versus market-based; universal versus specialized banking; relationship versus arms-length banking. The paper also examines the historical pattern of financial system development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044095
Cover Image
Economic growth, size of the agricultural sector, and urbanization in Africa
Brückner, Markus - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 26-36
urbanization rate. For a panel of 41 African countries during the period 1960–2007, the paper’s three main findings are that: (i …) decreases in the share of agricultural value added lead to a significant increase in the urbanization rate; (ii) conditional on … changes in the share of agricultural value added GDP per capita growth does not significantly affect the urbanization rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011056710