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Natural experiments of history / edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, c2010.Description: 278 pISBN:
  • 9780674035577 (alk. paper)
  • 0674035577 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • bN285n 2010
Contents:
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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Automatización y Procesos Técnicos Automatización y Procesos Técnicos (1er. Piso) N285n 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000088366

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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.

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