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Natural Experiments of History.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Diamond, Jared
Otros Autores: Robinson, James A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cumberland : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue
  • Jared Diamond And James A. Robinson; 1. Controlled Comparison and Polynesian Cultural Evolution
  • Patrick V. Kirch; 2. Exploding Wests: Boom and Bust in Nineteenth-Century Settler Societies
  • James Belich; 3. Politics, Banking, and Economic Development: Evidence from New World Economies
  • Stephen Haber; 4. Intra-Island and Inter-Island Comparisons
  • Jared Diamond; 5. Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa's Slave Trades
  • Nathan Nunn; 6. Colonial Land Tenure, Electoral Competition, and Public Goods in India
  • Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer.
  • 7. From Ancien Régime to Capitalism: The Spread of the French Revolution as a Natural Experiment
  • Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. RobinsonAfterword: Using Comparative Methods in Studies of Human History
  • Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson; Contributors.