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The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Economic Development in Peru

Arroyo Abad, Leticia - 2020

Recent scholarship claims that extractive colonial institutions explain the lackluster performance of Latin American economies today. We examine forced labor in colonial Peru. We find that while coercive labor institutions led to a drop in the indigenous population until the seventeenth century,...

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Inherited Institutions : Cooperation in the Light of Democratic Legitimacy

Langenbach, Pascal - 2019

We experimentally investigate whether the procedural history of a sanctioning institution affects cooperation in a … impact of the voting procedure, no information about the cooperation history is provided. In line with existing empirical …) institution, as compared to the corresponding, randomly imposed setting. In the second generation, the procedural history only …

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The great political divergence

Yang, Clair Zhuqing; Huang, Yasheng - 2021

This paper investigates the worldwide phenomenon of "political divergence'' between the East and the West. During the 8th to 10th centuries, Western Europe and China both achieved political stability, but they did so through dramatically different routes. Western Europe developed parliamentary...

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Under the Thumb of History? Political Institutions and the Scope for Action

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2014

This article discusses the two leading views of history and political institutions. For some scholars, institutions are … argue that although there is clear evidence that history matters and has long-term effects, there are not enough data to …

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Judge Jack Weinstein and the World of Tort : Institutional and Historical Perspectives

Rabin, Robert L. - 2015

In this Article, I offer four representative illustrations of Judge Jack Weinstein's creative efforts to recast traditional tort concepts in a fashion responsive, by his lights, to accident law claims that pressed against the boundaries of the conventional interpersonal tort law process. In the...

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Understanding Practice and Institutions : A Historical Perspective

Watts, Ross L. - 2016

This paper explains how and why Anglo-American accounting and auditing, along with corporate governance and capital markets, evolved over many centuries in response to changes in market forces and technology. We first trace the development of practices that were included in U.S. corporate...

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