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Innovation and the Great Divergence
Stephen Broadberry, University of Oxford
The Great Divergence of GDP per capita between the leading regions of Europe and China occurred around 1700 as a period of positive growth...
The Economy, The Ghost in your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality
Dora Costa, University of California, Los Angeles
Explanations for the West's escape from premature mortality have focused on chronic malnutrition or income and on public health or...
The nature of the Chinese firm: unincorporated joint stock companies in the Qing dynasty and Republican period
Matthew Lowenstein, Stanford University
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Broke, But Not Out Of Luck: Bankruptcy Regulation and Economic Activity
Sun Kyoung Lee, University of Michigan
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Economic History Seminar: Tuesday, November 11
Mel Stephens and Soyoung Han, University of Michigan
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Labor Reallocation and Recessions: Re-Evaluating Unemployment in Interwar Britain
Meredith Paker, Grinnell College
How does labor reallocation across industries impact recessions? This paper takes up this question for interwar Britain, where the Great...
Separation of Powers or Division of Labor: Efficiency and Fairness in the Resolution of Patent Interference Disputes, 1836-1940.
Naomi Lamoreaux, University of Michigan and Yale University
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