作者：University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：I examine the assignment of private property rights during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to five natural resources on federal lands in the Far West. Assigning property rights required adaptation from established, eastern practices. The resulting property rights and their long-term welfare effects inform over-fishing, excessive air pollution, and other natural resource and environmental problems. Allocations based on local conditions, prior use, and unconstrained by outside gover...
作者：Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
作者：University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
作者：University of Warwick; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Max Planck Society
摘要：This article provides a new benchmark estimate of comparative Germany/IJ.K. labor productivity in manufacturing for circa 1907, and experiments with alternative German manufacturing production indices for time series projection from a circa 1935 benchmark. A consistent picture of broadly similar levels of manufacturing labor productivity in Britain and Germany throughout the period 1871-1938 is established. We also show that a substantial German productivity lead had already emerged in heavy i...
作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
