Abstract The rise of Western Europe after 1500 is due largely to growth in countries with
access to the Atlantic Ocean and with substantial trade with the New World, Africa, and Asia …

This study documents the boom in Europe's imports from Asia and the Americas between
1500 and 1800 and explores its causes. There was no commodity-price convergence …

The immense economic inequality we observe in the world today didn't happen overnight, or
even in the past century. It is the path dependent outcome of a multitude of historical …

This article surveys an influential new research program on historical paths of institutional
development and their consequences for growth. The research program exploits the …

New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early Canada examines
the economic development of both the original American colonies and early French Canada …

This article reviews the ways in which historians and economists have applied the term
'globalization'to the early modern era. It distinguishes a soft and a hard definition, and goes …

European economic growth in the quarter of a century that ended in 1973 outstripped growth
in any period of comparable length before or since. The elements of Europe's growth miracle …

Economists have long been concerned with the explanation of differences across countries
in levels of national income, population, and per capita incomes, as well as in their rates of …

The purpose of this chapter is to discuss and analyse how the balance of payments
impinges on the growth performance of countries. This is important because mainstream …

For better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange
has changed our lives. But when did this process of globalization begin, and what effects did …