I address David Albouy's (2006) critique of the data constructed by Daron Acemoglu, Simon
Johnson and James Robinson (2001). The contribution of this paper is to instrument for …

The legacy of colonial history is readily apparent in language, culture, and modern military
and trade alliances. This has led many economists to look at the relationship between …

Many scholars have reflected on Ricardo's comparative advantage theory, but little has been
said about Yoruba economic thoughts, especially in the exchange and distribution of articles …

All economies have two sides. Everywhere, material life consists of two forms of
relationships: socially mediated exchange and impersonal trade. In the one case economy …

The impact of Antony G. Hopkins' life work as a historian of Africa, the British Empire, and
globalization is on full display in this festschrift volume of thirty-two chapters by thirty-five …

Economic historians of the United States, with their traditional reliance on Europe as the
reference point, normally focus on factor endowments in accounting for the record of …

The literature on underdevelopment has been predominantly anecdotal, philosophical, and
value-laden. By empirically testing several hypotheses about colonialism and economic …

Developing science does depend on special individuals. But it is the cooperative and
competitive interplay of many contributors that makes the whole greater than the sum of its …

Manuel Gonzalo sets out to explain the emergence of the Indian economy over the last half
a century, from the perspective of Latin American developmental economics thinking …

Since the inception of development economics in the post-World War II period, most of its
proponents have prescribed the adoption of western institutions as the path for prosperity …