Economic development in the Americas since 1500

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Economic development in the Americas since 1500

endowments and institutions

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"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"--

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Economic development in the Americas since 1500: endowments and institutions
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, New York
Series
NBER series on long-term factors in economic development

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Dewey Decimal Class
338.973
Library of Congress
HC94 .E64 2011, HC94 .E64 2012, HC94.E64 2011

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Pagination
p. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24842765M
ISBN 13
9781107009554, 9780521251372
LCCN
2011015745
OCLC/WorldCat
713834832

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