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作者:Stanford University
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作者:Arora, S
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作者:Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico
摘要:Mexico's initial industrialization was based on firms that were grouped: that is, linked to other firms through close affiliations with a common bank. Most explanations for the prevalence of groups are based on increasing returns or missing formal capital markets. We propose a simpler explanation that better fits the facts of Mexican history. In the absence of secure property rights, tangible collateral could not credibly be offered to creditors; but there remained the possibility of using rep...
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作者:Sullivan, RJ
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作者:University of California System; University of California Davis
摘要:We estimate the extent of common land in England from 1475 to 1839, treating charity land as a sample. We find common was only 27 percent of land in 1600. Thus there was little common beyond what Parliamentary acts later enclosed. More tentatively, common was only one-third of land even in 1500. Further, common land in 1600 was mainly stinted, excluding those without formal property rights. Common waste, to which the landless poor did have access, constituted a mere 4 percent of land, and was ...
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作者:University of South Carolina System; University of South Carolina Columbia
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作者:University System of Georgia; Georgia Institute of Technology; Emory University
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作者:Leiden University - Excl LUMC; Leiden University
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作者:University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder; Queens University - Canada
摘要:Like Europeans and colonists, eighteenth-century Native Americans were purchasing a greatly expanded variety of goods. As fur prices rose from 1716 to 1770, there was a shift in expenditures from producer and household goods to tobacco, alcohol, and other luxuries by Indians who traded furs at the Hudson's Bay Company's York Factory post. A consumer behavior model, using company accounts, shows that Indians bought more European goods in response to higher fur prices and, perhaps more important...
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作者:University of Cambridge