@techreport{NBERw12657, title = "Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?", author = "Diego Comin and William Easterly and Erick Gong", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "12657", year = "2006", month = "October", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w12657", }