Economic development in the Americas since 1500 : endowments and institutions
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Economic development in the Americas since 1500 : endowments and institutions
（NBER series on long-term factors in economic development / editors, Robert W. Fogel and Clayne L. Pope）
Cambridge University Press, 2012
- : hardback
- : pbk.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 361-402) and index
"With contributions by Stephen Haber, Elisa V. Mariscal, Eric M. Zolt"
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Description
This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. This variation is driven by differences in major institutions - suffrage, education, tax policy, land and immigration policy, and banking and financial organizations. These factors, in turn, are all related to differences in endowments, climate and natural resources. Providing a comprehensive treatment of its topic, the essays have been revised to reflect new developments and research.
Table of Contents
- Beginnings: memoirs by two of Ken Sokoloff's friends and teachers Claudia Goldin and Stanley L. Engerman
- Acknowledgments
- Seminar presentations
- Sources of funding
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Introduction
- 1. Paths of development: an overview
- 2. Factor endowments and institutions with Stephen Haber
- 3. The role of institutions in shaping factor
- 4. The evolution of suffrage institutions
- 5. The evolution of schooling: 1800-1925 with Elisa V. Mariscal
- 6. Inequality and the evolution of taxation Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Eric M. Zolt
- 7. Land and immigration policies
- 8. Politics and banking systems Stephen Haber
- 9. Five hundred years of European colonization
- 10. Institutional and non-institutional explanations
- 11 Epilogue: institutions in political and economic development
- Bibliography
- Prior publications.
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