Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions (NBER Series on Long-Term Factors in Economic Development)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 2/9/2012
EAN 9780521251372, ISBN10: 0521251370
Paperback, 448 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm
Language: English
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.
Beginnings
memoirs by two of Ken Sokoloff's friends and teachers Claudia Goldin and Stanley L. Engerman
Acknowledgments
Seminar presentations
Sources of funding
List of tables
List of figures
Introduction
1. Paths of development
an overview
2. Factor endowments and institutions with Stephen Haber
3. The role of institutions in shaping factor
4. The evolution of suffrage institutions
5. The evolution of schooling
1800–1925 with Elisa V. Mariscal
6. Inequality and the evolution of taxation Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Eric M. Zolt
7. Land and immigration policies
8. Politics and banking systems Stephen Haber
9. Five hundred years of European colonization
10. Institutional and non-institutional explanations
11 Epilogue
institutions in political and economic development
Bibliography
Prior publications.