Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policies in the New World

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff, Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy (University of Chicago Press, 2008), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/understanding-long-run-economic-growth-geography-institutions-and-knowledge-economy/once-upon-time-americas-land-and-immigration-policies-new-world.