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Review Article on The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective by Angus Maddison
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 69-78
This is a review article by Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards of Angus Maddison's path-breaking new book, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. The article summarizes Maddison's key findings in a number of areas, with particular emphasis on his estimates of...
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Are We There Yet? Time for Checks and Balances on New Institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010584367
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Are we there yet? Time for checks and balances on new institutionalism
Iyigun, Murat - 2012
economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290007
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Factor Endowments, Trade Direction, and Growth Performances of the Americas and East Asia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Lai, Hongyi Harry - EconWPA - 1997
Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062412
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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017
This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602763
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Jánossy elmélete az új növekedéselmélet tükrében
Tarján, Tamás - 2010
economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify … the "carrier" of development focusing on the systematic examination of the post-war reconstruction periods, and setup a … growth theory that have appeared in the nineties. The "real carrier of economic development" matches to the "human capital …
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Labor surplus revisited
Ranis, Gustav - 2012
development. Yet, even as at given technologies labor markets have not cleared, neo-classical economists have rejected the notion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369085
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Labor Surplus Revisited
Ranis, Gustav - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2012
development. Yet, even as at given technologies labor markets have not cleared, neo-classical economists have rejected the notion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010908072
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917048
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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