作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
作者：University of Munich; University Hohenheim
摘要：Recent historical research tends to view the 1848 revolutions in Europe as caused by a surge of radical ideas and by long-term socioeconomic problems. However, many contemporary observers interpreted much of the upheaval as a consequence of shortterm economic causes, specifically the serious shortfall in food supply that had shaken large parts of the Continent in 1845-1847, and the subsequent industrial slump. Applying standard quantitative methods to a data set of 27 European countries, we sh...
作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
作者：Harvard University; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：The modem concept of the wealth of nations emerged by the early twentieth century. Capital embodied in people-human capital-mattered. The United States led all nations in mass postelementary education during the human-capital century. The American system of education was shaped by New World endowments and Republican ideology and was characterized by virtues including publicly funded mass education that was open and forgiving, academic yet practical, secular, gender neutral, and funded and cont...
作者：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
作者：University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
