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Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions
Stanley L. Engerman
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paperback. Examines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century. Num Pages: 444 pages, 4 b/w illus. 60 tables. BIC Classification: 1K; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 620. Endowments and Institutions. 444 pages, 4 b/w illus. 60 tables. Examines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1K; KCZ. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 22. Weight: 608.
This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. This variation is driven by differences in major institutions – suffrage, education, tax policy, land and immigration policy, and banking and financial organizations. These factors, in turn, are all related to differences in endowments, climate and natural ... Read more
This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. This variation is driven by differences in major institutions – suffrage, education, tax policy, land and immigration policy, and banking and financial organizations. These factors, in turn, are all related to differences in endowments, climate and natural ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
444
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521251372
SKU
V9780521251372
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About Stanley L. Engerman
Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Slavery, Emancipation, and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives (2007), Naval Blockades in Peace and War (with Lance Davis, 2007) and Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development (with Philip T. Hoffman, Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal, Cambridge University Press, ... Read more
Reviews for Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions
'This volume is both a magisterial and a profound reassessment of the role of institutions in the social, political, and economic evolution of the Americas from Columbian contact to the present. There is nothing in the literature that approaches the range and detail of the cross-country comparisons across the Americas offered by Engerman and Sokoloff and their coauthors. The broad ... Read more