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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2007

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - 2012

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Cultural diversity, geographical isolation, and the origin of the wealth of nations

Ashrafy, Quamrul; Galorz, Oded - 2011

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Cultural Assimilation, Cultural Diffusion and the Origin of the Wealth of Nations

Ashraf, Quamrul; Galor, Oded - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

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The Expansion of Trade and the Development of European Industry to 1600

Kohn, Meir - 2001

This paper describes the industrial development of Europe to 1600. The conventional history of industrial development sees technological progress as its primary cause. However, this paper argues that the source of rising productivity was not new technology but the reorganization of production in...

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Resilience, adaptability and transformability : Danish butter factories in the face of coal shortages

Teives Henriques, Sofia; Sharp, Paul; Tsoukli, Xanthi; … - 2021

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Resilience, adaptability and transformability : Danish butter factories in the face of coal shortages

Teives Henriques, Sofia; Sharp, Paul; Tsoukli, Xanthi; … - 2021

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Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1869

Clark, Gregory; Jacks, David - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2006

How important was coal to the Industrial Revolution? Despite the huge growth of output, and the grip of coal and steam … on the popular image of the Industrial Revolution, recent cliometric accounts have assumed coal mining mattered little to … the Industrial Revolution. In contrast both E. A. Wrigley and Kenneth Pomeranz have made coal central to the story. This …

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Can natural gas save lives? : evidence from the deployment of a fuel delivery system in a developing country

Cesur, Resul; Tekin, Erdal; Ulker, Aydogan - 2016

There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in …

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Volatility spillovers and causality of carbon emissions, oil and coal spot and futures for the EU and USA

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Zuo, Guangdong - 2017 - Revised: May 2017

volatility of carbon emissions, it is not surprising that crude oil and coal have recently become a very important research topic …. For the USA, daily spot and futures prices are available for crude oil and coal, but there are no daily spot or futures … prices for carbon emissions. For the EU, there are no daily spot prices for coal or carbon emissions, but there are daily …

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