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Economic History
The historical study of economies and economic change.
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- How did Kuznets's Ukrainian upbringing influence his scepticism toward official statistics?
- How did Mokyr argue that a specific intellectual climate, rather than resource endowment, triggered the Industrial Revolution?
- How did Tjalling Koopmans arrive at similar mathematics through wartime shipping logistics?
- How did colonial settler mortality rates shape whether extractive or inclusive institutions were established?
- How did governments measure economic performance before Simon Kuznets developed national income accounting?
- How did the moving assembly line introduced in 1913 affect the Model T's price over time?
- How long did the institutional choices made during colonization persist after independence?
- What did Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson argue was the primary determinant of long-run national prosperity?
- What did Krugman's economic geography work explain about why manufacturing clusters in particular cities?
- What did Robert Fogel's cliometric analysis conclude about the economic necessity of American railroads?
- What is the Kuznets curve, and what does it claim about inequality during industrialisation?
- What uncomfortable conclusion did Fogel's research reach about the profitability of slavery?
Sources
- Ford Model T introduced
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences
- Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences