This paper synthesizes our results from work on growth in the Americas and especially on the former slave regions. Firstly, we found that significant differences in GDPpp emerged only after slavery was abandoned. At abolition, there was a fall in almost all of them but most started to grow...

In the Schumpeterian endogenous growth model, random innovations (technical progress) are the main element that explains economic growth. Empirical analyses suggest there are two variables that explain the introduction of innovations: a randomly variable and a deterministic trend. In this paper...