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The new comparative economic history/ essays in honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor

Contributor(s): O'Rourke, Kevin H ed | Hatton, Timothy J ed | Taylor, Alan M edMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 417 pISBN: 9780262083614Subject(s): economic history | industrialized world | industrial revolutionDDC classification: 330.9034

Contents:

Introduction : the new comparative economic history / Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor -- India in the great divergence / Robert C. Allen -- What made Britannia great? How much of the rise of Britain to world dominance by 1850 does the industrial revolution explain? / Gregory Clark -- Did European commodity prices converge during 1500-1800? / Süleyman Özmucur and Şevket Pamuk -- Market integration and convergence in the world wheat market, 1800-2000 / Giovanni Federico and Karl Gunnar Persson -- Biological globalization : the other grain invasion / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode -- Other people's money : the evolution of bank capital in the industrialized world / Richard S. Grossman -- Education, migration, and regional wage convergence in U.S. history / William J. Collins -- Democracy and protectionism / Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor -- A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies? / Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson -- Breaking the fetters : why did countries exit the interwar gold standard? / Holger C. Wolf and Tarik M. Yousef -- Were Jews political refugees or economic migrants? Assessing the persecution theory of Jewish emigration, 1881-1914 / Leah Platt Boustan -- Inequality and poverty in Latin America : a long-run exploration / Leandro Prados de la Escosura -- The convergence of living standards in the Atlantic economy, 1870-1930 / George R. Boyer -- You take the high road and I'll take the low road : economic success and well-being in the longer run / Cormac Ó Gráda -- Euro-productivity and Euro-jobs since the 1960s : which institutions really mattered? / Gayle J. Allard and Peter H. Lindert -- Afterword / Lawrence H. Summers.

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Introduction : the new comparative economic history / Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor --
India in the great divergence / Robert C. Allen --
What made Britannia great? How much of the rise of Britain to world dominance by 1850 does the industrial revolution explain? / Gregory Clark --
Did European commodity prices converge during 1500-1800? / Süleyman Özmucur and Şevket Pamuk --
Market integration and convergence in the world wheat market, 1800-2000 / Giovanni Federico and Karl Gunnar Persson --
Biological globalization : the other grain invasion / Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode --
Other people's money : the evolution of bank capital in the industrialized world / Richard S. Grossman --
Education, migration, and regional wage convergence in U.S. history / William J. Collins --
Democracy and protectionism / Kevin H. O'Rourke and Alan M. Taylor --
A dual policy paradox : why have trade and immigration policies always differed in labor-scarce economies? / Timothy J. Hatton and Jeffrey G. Williamson --
Breaking the fetters : why did countries exit the interwar gold standard? / Holger C. Wolf and Tarik M. Yousef --
Were Jews political refugees or economic migrants? Assessing the persecution theory of Jewish emigration, 1881-1914 / Leah Platt Boustan --
Inequality and poverty in Latin America : a long-run exploration / Leandro Prados de la Escosura --
The convergence of living standards in the Atlantic economy, 1870-1930 / George R. Boyer --
You take the high road and I'll take the low road : economic success and well-being in the longer run / Cormac Ó Gráda --
Euro-productivity and Euro-jobs since the 1960s : which institutions really mattered? / Gayle J. Allard and Peter H. Lindert --
Afterword / Lawrence H. Summers.

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