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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 resources. Providing a comprehensive treatment
of its topic, the essays have been revised to reflect new
developments and research.
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work
from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The
essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in
the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the
French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some
essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others
provide important insights about the operation of specific slave
economics. There are reviews of slave markets and prices, and
discussions of the efficiency and distributional aspects of
slavery. Perspectives are brought on the transition from slavery
and subsequent adjustments, and the volume contains the work of
prominent scholars, many of whom have been pioneers in the study of
slavery in the Americas.
This volume includes ten essays concerned with financial and other
forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United
States, dating from the seventeenth century through the twentieth.
The essays relate the development of institutions to economic
change and describe their evolution over time. Each also discusses
several different forms of intermediation and deals with
significant economic and historical issues.
Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in
its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political,
social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and
economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including
pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in
this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic
development. The issues they address range from nutrition in
pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care;
from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to
workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the
factors that affected the performance of those who reached the
pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that
stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and
higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic
growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key
to the growth of human capital.
Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together new work
from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The
essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in
the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the
French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some
essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others
provide important insights about the operation of specific slave
economics. There are reviews of slave markets and prices, and
discussions of the efficiency and distributional aspects of
slavery. New perspectives are brought on the transition from
slavery and subsequent adjustments, and the volume contains the
latest work of scholars, many of whom have been pioneers in the
study of slavery in the Americas.
This volume includes ten essays concerned with financial and other forms of economic intermediation in Europe, Canada, and the United States, dating from the seventeenth century through the twentieth. The essays relate the development of institutions to economic change and describe their evolution over time. Each also discusses several different forms of intermediation and deals with significant economic and historical issues.
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