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The Long Process of Development : Building Markets and States in Pre-industrial England, Spain and their Colonies.
This groundbreaking book examines the history of Spain, England, the United States, and Mexico to explain why development takes centuries.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; List of tables and figures; Monarchs, 1037-1833; Introduction; Absorbing the Meaning of "Time" in Development; Understanding the Mechanisms of Change; The Need to Recognize Different Levels of Development; Operationalizing the Importance of Informal Institutions in Light of Max Weber's Insights; The Importance of the State in Development and the Collective Action Analysis of Mancur Olson; Douglass North's New Emphasis on the Dominant Coalition; 1 The Collective Action Difficulties of Creating an Effective State.
- The Maintenance of the Rules of the Game: Social Contract or NormsDouglass North's Institutions and the Functioning of the Economy; Douglass North and the State; Introducing Dynamics into the Analysis: Max Weber and the Evolution from Personalistic to Impersonal Norms; Introducing Dynamics into the Analysis: Mancur Olson and His Collective Action Theory; 2 The Pre-State of England and Spain; The Problem of the Pre-Nation-State; England Prior to the Formation of the City-State of London; Castile from 800 to 1262: "A Society Organized for War"; The Consolidation of the Spanish City-States.
- Castile after 1262: A Society "Disorganized by War"Geography in Economic Development: A Collective Action Analysis; 3 The Early State in England and Spain; The City-State of London; The Hanseatic League as a Key Member of Edward III's Dominant Coalition; The English King and the Lords of the Interior; Isabella's Creation of an Early Corporate State; The Early State of the Hapsburg Dynasty, 1521-1700; The Return of Court Politics in Spain; 4 The Minimally Effective State; Henry VII's and Henry VIII's Destruction of Military Feudalism and the Construction of a Minimally Effective State.
- Elizabeth I's Building of a Merchant Marine and the Problem of Silver in Trade with Asia and the AmericasThe Development of Illegal Trade with the New World; Charles I's Marketization of Legal Colonial Trade; The Rules of Colonial Trade and the Consequences of the Shift to Sugar Production in the Caribbean; 5 Spanish Colonial Policy and the Transition to the Minimally Effective State; The Origins of the Castilian Colonial System; The Non-Decision on Commodity Production; The Bourbon Reforms inside Spain and the Transition to a Minimally Effective State.
- The Bourbon Reforms in Mexico: An OverviewAdministrative and Tax Reforms; Trade Liberalization; 6 A Dominant Coalition in Transition; The Evolution toward a Market Economy and a Rational-Legal Worldview in the 1600s; Religion and Socioeconomic Turmoil in the 1600s; James I and the Dominant Coalition in Transition; Charles I, the Dominant Coalition, and the Civil War of the 1640s; The Central Role of the Restoration; The Glorious Revolution; Parliament, Bureaucratic Specialization of Labor, and the Policy Process; 7 The English Colonies; The Deliberately Disunited English Colonies.