The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

From the 19th century to the 1940's, Quebec remained poorer and less economically developed than the rest of Canada in general and poorer than Ontario in particular. This placed Quebec at the bottom of North American rankings of living standards. One prominent hypothesis for the initiation of...

Die vorliegende Arbeit will zeigen, daß sich die jeweiligen deutschen Landschaften in ihrer Wüstungsintensität ganz verschieden verhalten. Im Rahmen einer Übersicht müssen zwar manche örtlichen Eigentümlichkeiten unberücksichtigt bleiben, doch ergeben sich aus einer solchen Übersicht...