Natural Experiments of History.

By:

Diamond, Jared

Contributor(s):

Robinson, James A

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cumberland : Harvard University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (287 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674076716
0674076710

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Natural Experiments of History.DDC classification:

907.2

LOC classification:

D16 ǂb N335 2011eb

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Contents:

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.

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