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Douglass North gehört zu den führenden Sozialwissenschaftlern des 20. Jahrhunderts. Er wurde für seine bahnbrechenden Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der ökonomischen Geschichtstheorie mit dem Nobelpreis ausgezeichnet. Dieser Aufsatz rekonstruiert (a) seine kliometrische Diagnose der Moderne, (b)...
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from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative …. Growth is not sustainable until this relative price drops below a certain threshold, thus inducing farmers to adopt modern … and accelerates toward modern growth. Our calibrated model is largely consistent with the set of historical data we have …
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Although the Industrial Revolution is often characterized as the culmination of a process of commercialisation, the precise nature of such a link remains unclear. This paper provides an analysis of one such link: the role of commercialisation in raising wages as impersonal labour market...
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industrial production growth in England between 1300 and 1800. …
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from stagnation to growth. When agriculture relies on traditional technology, industrial development reduces the relative …. Growth is not sustainable until this relative price drops below a certain threshold, thus inducing farmers to adopt modern … and accelerates toward modern growth. Our calibrated model is largely consistent with the set of historical data we have …
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This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
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This paper advances a novel hypothesis regarding the historical roots of labor emancipation. It argues that the decline of coercive labor institutions in the industrial phase of development has been an inevitable by-product of the intensification of capital-skill complementarity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638304
-Industrial-Revolution phenomena--the industrialization and growth take-off of rich "northern" nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid … trade expansion. Specifically, we present a stages-of-growth model in which the four phenomena are jointly endogenous and … knowledge, the first endogenous growth model to display this Rostovian stages-of-growth feature …
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Crowding-out during the British Industrial Revolution has long been one of the leading explanations for slow growth …
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appropriate calibration macroeconomic properties emerge such as endogenous business cycles, and nominal GDP growth, while …
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