Natural experiments of history
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Diamond, Jared M.
Robinson, James A., 1960- |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2011.
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| Ausgabe: | First Harvard University Press paperback edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
278 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm. |
| Schlagworte: | |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Prologue / 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.
