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A Theory of Economic History

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This article is published in Research Papers in Economics.The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 833 citations till now.

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Financial development and economic growth : views and agenda

TL;DR: The authors argued that the preponderance of theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence suggests a positive first-order relationship between financial development and economic growth, and that financial development level is a good predictor of future rates of economic growth.
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Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England

TL;DR: In this article, the authors study the evolution of the constitutional arrangements in seventeenth-century England following the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and argue that the new institutions allowed the government to commit credibly to upholding property rights.
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Financial Intermediation and Growth: Causality and Causes

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate whether the level of development of financial intermediaries exerts a casual influence on economic growth, and they find that financial intermediary development has a large causal impact on growth.
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Financial intermediation and growth: Causality and causes ☆

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate whether the level of development of financial intermediaries exerts a casual influence on economic growth and whether cross-country differences in legal and accounting systems (such as creditor rights, contract enforcement, and accounting standards) explain differences in financial development.