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ZW-GwMSU |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20210323142618.0 |
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022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER |
International Standard Serial Number |
13814338 |
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Original cataloging agency |
MSU |
Transcribing agency |
MSU |
Description conventions |
rda |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Auer Raphael A. |
Relator term |
author |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
Geography,institutions,and the making of comparative development/ |
Statement of responsibility, etc. |
created by Raphael .A. Auer |
264 ## - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York: |
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Springer, |
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2013 |
336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
Source |
rdacontent |
Content type term |
text |
Content type code |
txt |
337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
Source |
rdamedia |
Media type term |
unmediated |
Media type code |
n |
338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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rdacarrier |
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volume |
Carrier type code |
nc |
440 ## - SERIES STATEMENT/ADDED ENTRY--TITLE |
Title |
Journal of economic growth |
Volume/sequential designation |
Vol 18 , no 2 , |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc. |
While the direct impact of geographic endowments on prosperity is present in all countries, in former colonies, geography has also affected colonization policies and, therefore, institutional outcomes. Using non-colonized countries as a control group, I re-examine the theories put forward by La Porta et al. (J Law Econ Org 15(1):222–279, 1999 and Acemoglu et al. (Am Econ Rev 91(5), 1369–1401, 2001. I find strong support for both theories, but also evidence that the authors’ estimates of the impact of colonization on institutions and growth are biased, since they confound the effect of the historical determinants of institutions with the direct impact of geographic endowments on development. In a baseline estimation, I find that the approach of Acemoglu et al. (2001) overestimates the importance of institutions for economic growth by 28 %, as a country’s natural disease environment affected settler mortality during colonization and also has a direct impact on prosperity. The approach of La Porta et al. (1999) underestimates the importance of colonization-imposed legal origin for institutional development by 63 %, as Britain tended to colonize countries that are remote from Europe and thus suffer from low access to international markets. |
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Growth |
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Institutions |
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Geography |
650 0# - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Comparative development |
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Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
Koha item type |
Journal Article |