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Obregon, Carlos - 2023

In social sciences there has been a long debate between the defenders of institutionalism and those of liberalism. The debate has centered around the relationship that exists between the individual (agent) and the social institutions (social structure). In general, liberalism defends that the...

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Reconstructing Corporate Business History using Accounting Data

Mallick, Indrajit - 2010

This paper attempts to outline a methodology for reconstructing the history of big enterprise. The problem is to … important inputs in this regard. However, accounting data is necessary but not sufficient for a complete account of the history … purpose without accounting data. This paper focuses on the use of accounting data for reconstructing corporate history and …

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Testable implications of economic revolutions: An application to historic data on European wages

Fry, J. M.; Masood, Omar - 2011

Motivated by an on-going debate in economic history we develop a simple method to quantify the impact of economic …

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The Crisis of Globalization and India’s Economic Prospects

Mazumdar, Surajit - 2022

The premise of this paper is that globalization faces a endogenously generated crisis which has both economic and political dimensions, a result of the specific combination of continuity and change that has marked its historical trajectory. While western dominance, financialization, and the...

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Myths and Realities of Long-run Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants

Hasan, Lubna Hasan - 2006

It has long been realised that factor accumulation and technological development are only proximate causes of economic development, and focus has now shifted to investigating the ‘deeper determinants’ of economic growth. Two such forces are highlighted in literature: institutions and...

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Myths and Realities of Long-run Development: A Look at Deeper Determinants

Hasan, Lubna Hasan - 2006

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Contested Capitalism: Financial Politics and Implications for China

Richard, Carney - 2007

As China's economy grows and matures, is it developing institutional patterns that resemble those of other wealthy countries? I offer an innovative theory that deduces the structure of nations' capitalist institutions based on distributive welfare gains to those actors representing an economy's...

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Poverty, Population, Inequality, and Development: the Historical Perspective

Chilosi, Alberto - 2010

War II period, are considered in the perspective of economic and demographic history, and in their connection with the …

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A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations

Boettke, Peter - 2011

in a multi-volume work on the economic and intellectual history of western civilization. In a sense, the subtitle of the …

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Slavery, Inequality, and Economic Development in the Americas: An Examination of the Engerman-Sokoloff Hypothesis

Nunn, Nathan - 2007

Recent research argues that among former New World colonies a nation's past dependence on slave labor was important for its subsequent economic development (Engerman and Sokoloff, 1997, 2002, 2006; Sokoloff and Engerman, 2000). These studies argue that specialization in plantation agriculture based...

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