Natural experiments of history /
Natural experiments of history /
edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2010.
- 278 p.
Bibliogr.
Prologue: Natural experiments of history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson -- Controlled comparison and Polynesian cultural evolution / Patrick V. Kirch -- Exploding Wests : boom and bust in nineteenth-century settler societies / James Belich -- Politics, banking, and economic development : evidence from New World economies / Stephen Haber -- Intra-island and inter-island comparisons / Jared Diamond -- Shackled to the past : the causes and consequences of Africa's slave trades / Nathan Nunn -- Colonial land tenure, electoral competition, and public goods in India / Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer -- From ancien regime to capitalism : the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson -- Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.
9780674035577 (alk. paper) 0674035577 (alk. paper)
2009012678
Histoire--Methode comparative--Cas, Etudes de.
Histoire--Methodologie--Cas, Etudes de.
bN285n 2010
Bibliogr.
Prologue: Natural experiments of history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson -- Controlled comparison and Polynesian cultural evolution / Patrick V. Kirch -- Exploding Wests : boom and bust in nineteenth-century settler societies / James Belich -- Politics, banking, and economic development : evidence from New World economies / Stephen Haber -- Intra-island and inter-island comparisons / Jared Diamond -- Shackled to the past : the causes and consequences of Africa's slave trades / Nathan Nunn -- Colonial land tenure, electoral competition, and public goods in India / Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer -- From ancien regime to capitalism : the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson -- Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.
9780674035577 (alk. paper) 0674035577 (alk. paper)
2009012678
Histoire--Methode comparative--Cas, Etudes de.
Histoire--Methodologie--Cas, Etudes de.
bN285n 2010