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Colonial Theories of Institutional Development : Toward a Model of Styles of Imperialism /
This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The authors ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Springer,
2017.
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| Colección: | Contributions to economics,
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book analyzes the role played by initial endowments and colonizer identity in seeking to explain institutional development in former colonies. It presents a model of two styles of imperialism that integrates the colonial origin and endowment views explaining current institutions. The authors argue that Great Britain and Portugal adopted an 'economically-oriented' style, which was pragmatic and sensitive to initial conditions. For this style of imperialism the endowment view is applicable. In contrast, France employed a 'politically-oriented' style of imperialism, in which ideological and political motivations were more present. This led to a uniform colonial policy that largely disregarded initial endowments. In turn, the case of Spain represents a hybrid of the two models. The empirical analysis presented here reveals a remarkable degree of heterogeneity in the relationship of endowments and colonizer identity with current institutions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 146 pages) : 27 illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783319541273 3319541277 |
| ISSN: | 1431-1933 |