Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy

Dora Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

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Date: 2011
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy , pp 1-12

Dora Costa and Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policies in the New World , pp 13-48

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff

The Myth of the Frontier , pp 49-88

Camilo García-Jimeno and James Robinson

Differential Paths of Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies , pp 89-120

Stephen Haber

Political Centralization and Urban Primacy: Evidence from National and Provincial Capitals in the Americas , pp 121-153

Sebastian Galiani and Sukkoo Kim

History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in Nineteenth-Century France , pp 155-176

Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal

Two Roads to the Transportation Revolution: Early Corporations in the United Kingdom and the United States , pp 177-204

Dan Bogart and John Majewski

Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930 , pp 205-234

B. Zorina Khan

The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century , pp 235-274

Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Kenneth Sokoloff and Dhanoos Sutthiphisal

Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement , pp 275-310

Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz

The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth , pp 311-354

Robert Fogel

Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation , pp 355-361

Joel Mokyr

Kenneth Sokoloff on Inequality in the Americas , pp 363-372

Peter Lindert

Remembering Ken, Our Beloved Friend , pp 373-374

Manuel Trajtenberg

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