Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy
Dora L. Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux, editors
Conference held November 7-8, 2008
Published in August 2011 by University of Chicago Press
© 2011 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
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390 pages
ISBN: 0-226-11634-4
Table of Contents
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Front matter, table of contents:
Dora L. Costa, Naomi R. Lamoreaux
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Introduction:
Dora L. Costa, Naomi R. Lamoreaux
(p. 1 - 12)
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Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policies in the New World:
Stanley L. Engerman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff
(p. 13 - 48)
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The Myth of the Frontier:
Camilo García-Jimeno, James A. Robinson
(p. 49 - 88)
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Differential Paths of Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies:
Stephen Haber
(p. 89 - 120)
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Political Centralization and Urban Primacy: Evidence from National and Provincial Capitals in the Americas:
Sebastian Galiani, Sukkoo Kim
(p. 121 - 153)
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History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in Nineteenth-Century France:
Philip T. Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
(p. 155 - 176)
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Two Roads to the Transportation Revolution: Early Corporations in the United Kingdom and the United States:
Dan Bogart, John Majewski
(p. 177 - 204)
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Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930:
B. Zorina Khan
(p. 205 - 234)
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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century:
Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Dhanoos Sutthiphisal
(p. 235 - 274)
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Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement:
Claudia Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz
(p. 275 - 310)
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The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth:
Robert W. Fogel
(p. 311 - 354)
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Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation:
Joel Mokyr
(p. 355 - 361)
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Kenneth Sokoloff on Inequality in the Americas:
Peter H. Lindert
(p. 363 - 372)
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Remembering Ken, Our Beloved Friend:
Manuel Trajtenberg
(p. 373 - 374)
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