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" Understanding long-run economic growth : "
edited by Dora L. Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
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BL
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711448
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b533637
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Understanding long-run economic growth : : geography, institutions, and the knowledge economy /\ edited by Dora L. Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: The University of Chicago Press,, 2011
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ix, 390 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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0226116344
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: 9780226116341
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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| Contents
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Once upon a time in the Americas: land and immigration policies in the New World / Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Myth of the frontier / Camilo García-Jimeno and James A. Robinson -- Differential paths of financial development: evidence from New World economies / Stephen Haber -- Political centralization and urban primacy: evidence from national and provincial capitals in the Americas / Sebastian Galiani and Sukkoo Kim -- History, geography, and the markets for mortgage loans in nineteenth-century France / Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal -- Two roads to the transportation revolution: early corporations in the United Kingdom and United States / Dan Bogart and John Majewski -- Premium inventions: patents and prizes as incentive mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930 / B. Zorina Khan -- Reorganization of inventive activity in the United States during the early twentieth century / Naomi R. Lamoreau, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal -- Mass secondary schooling and the state: the role of state compulsion in the high school movement / Claudia Golden and Lawrence F. Katz -- Impact of the Asian miracle on the theory of economic growth / Robert W. Fogel -- Ken Sokoloff and the economic history of technology: an appreciation / Joel Mokyr -- Kenneth Sokoloff on inequality in the Americas / Peter H. Lindert
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"The conditions for sustainable growth and development are among the most debated topics in economics, and most agree that institutions matter greatly in explaining why some economies are more successful than othes over time. Probing the long-term effects of early colonial differences on immigration policy, land distribution, and financial development in a variety of settings, Understanidng Long-Run Economic Growth explores the relationship between economic conditions, growth, and inequality, with a focus on how the monopolization of resources by the political elite limits incentives for ordinary peole to invest in human capital or technological discovery. Among the topics discussed are the development of credit markets in France, the evolution of transportation companies and patent tendencies in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the organization of innovation in the United States"--Book jacket
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Sokoloff, Kenneth Lee
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Economic development
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Economic history
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338.9/009
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HD78.U544 2011
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Costa, Dora L
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Lamoreaux, Naomi R
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National Bureau of Economic Research
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