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Standardized Latin and Medieval Economic Growth
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
Traditional explanations for Western Europe's demographic growth in the High Middle Ages are unable to explain the rise in per-capita income that accompanied observed population changes. Here, we examine the hypothesis ...
Yesterday’s Games: Contingency Learning and the Growth of Public Spending, 1890-1938
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
Neither democracy nor globalization can explain the doubling of the peacetime public share in many Western countries between World Wars I and II. Here we examine two other explanations that are consistent with the timing ...
Directed Technical Change and International Trade
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
Recent changes in comparative advantage in the largest OECD economies differ significantly from the predictions of Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek theory. Japan's rising share of OECD machinery exports and the improvement in the ...
Explaining the Great Divergence: Medium and Message on the Eurasian Land Mass, 1700-1850
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2003)
Between 1700 and 1850, per-capita income doubled in Europe while falling in the rest of Eurasia. Neither geography nor economic institutions can explain this sudden divergence. Here the consequences of differences in ...