Die weltwirtschaftliche Aktivität ist infolge der Covid19-Pandemie im ersten Halbjahr 2020 voraussichtlich um fast 10 Prozent gesunken. Die Talsohle scheint aber inzwischen durchschritten, in China hat die Wirtschaft sogar bereits einen erheblichen Teil des Produktionseinbruchs vom Januar und...

Die weltwirtschaftliche Aktivität ist infolge der Covid19-Pandemie im ersten Halbjahr 2020 voraussichtlich um fast 10 Prozent gesunken. Die Talsohle scheint aber inzwischen durchschritten, in China hat die Wirtschaft sogar bereits einen erheblichen Teil des Produktionseinbruchs vom Januar und...

This book surveys the role of Amsterdam’s Sephardic merchants in the westward expansion of sugar production and trade in the seventeenth-century Atlantic. It offers an historical-geographic perspective, linking Amsterdam as an emerging staple market to a network of merchants of the "Portuguese...

This edited collection explores the historical determinants of the rise of mass schooling and human capital accumulation based on a global, long-run perspective, focusing on a variety of countries in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and the Americas. The authors analyze the increasing...

In this book, Arturo Santa-Cruz advances an understanding of power as a social relationship and applies it consistently to the economic realm in United States relations with other countries of the Western Hemisphere. Following the academic and popular debate on the ebb and flow of US hegemony,...

This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...

A colonial empire in crisis -- Empire beyond the mercantile system -- Between enslaved territories and overseas provinces -- Supplying or supplanting the Americas -- A revolutionary crescendo -- Conclusion: Ancien Regime legacies.

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the...

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the...

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...

"Portfolio allocation in presidential systems is a central tool that presidents use to deal with changes in the political and economic environment. Yet, we still have much to learn about the process through which ministers are selected and the reasons why they are replaced in presidential...

Silicon Valley technology is transforming the way we work, and Uber is leading the charge. An American startup that promised to deliver entrepreneurship for the masses through its technology, Uber instead built a new template for employment using algorithms and Internet platforms. Upending our...

This volume looks at the critical issues of industrial policy and sustainability. It assesses the gap between how developed and developing countries have integrated sustainability issues in their industrial policies, and how they should have ideally done so. The book looks at the specific issues...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Rethinking our region in a post-hegemonic moment -- 2 The renewal of U.S. "free trade" diplomacy in the Americas: from NAFTA to a deeper agenda of...

Prólogo / Carlos Dávila L. de Guevara ; Un eslabón en una cadena reciente de publicaciones internacionales comparadas -- I. Introducción -- II. Metodología y fuentes -- III. El "escaso" impacto de la última crisis mundial en 270 grandes corporaciones familiares de 11 paises ; Selección y...