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Economic development in the Americas since 1500 : endowments and institutions / Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engerman, Stanley L.
- Series:
- NBER series on long-term factors in economic development
- National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) series on long-term factors in economic development
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social institutions.
- America--Economic conditions.
- America.
- Economic conditions.
- Social institutions--America.
- Political institutions--America.
- Political institutions.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 417 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1 Paths of Development: An Overview 9
- 2 Factor Endowments and Institutions (with Stephen Haber) 31
- 3 The Role of Institutions in Shaping Factor Endowments 57
- 4 The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions 94
- 5 The Evolution of Schooling: 1800-1925 (with Elisa V. Mariscal) 121
- 6 Inequality and the Evolution of Taxation (by Sokoloff with Eric M. Zolt) 168
- 7 Land and Immigration Policies 212
- 8 Politics and Banking Systems (by Stephen Haber) 245
- 9 Five Hundred Years of European Colonization 295
- 10 Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Development 315
- 11 Epilogue: Institutions in Political and Economic Development 341.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-402) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107009554
- 1107009553
- 9780521251372
- 0521251370
- OCLC:
- 713834832
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