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The Causes of Slavery or Serfdom: A Hypothesis
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In this paper, the authors present a hypothesis regarding the causes of agricultural serfdom or slavery. But the hypothesis is limited to the Russian experience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and it aims at a wider applicability.Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to present, or more correctly, to revive, a hypothesis regarding the causes of agricultural serfdom or slavery (used here interchangeably). The hypothesis was suggested by Kliuchevsky's description of the Russian experience in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but it aims at a wider applicability.read more
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History Lessons Institutions, Factor Endowments, and Paths of Development in the New World
TL;DR: The authors argue that a hemispheric perspective across a wide range of colonies established in the New World by the Europeans suggests that although there were many influences, factor endowments or initial conditions had profound and enduring effects on the long-run paths of institutional and economic development followed by the respective economies.
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Chapter 6 Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of economic development and develop a framework for thinking about why economic institutions differ across countries.
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Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth
Daron Acemoglu,Daron Acemoglu,Daron Acemoglu,Simon Johnson,Simon Johnson,James A. Robinson,James A. Robinson,James A. Robinson +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors develop the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of economic development and develop a framework for thinking about why economic institutions differ across countries.
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Factor Endowments, Inequality, and Paths of Development among New World Economies
TL;DR: Engerman et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that the roots of these disparities in the extent of inequality lay indifferences in the initial factor endowments (dating back to the era of European colonization) and that societies that began with more extreme inequality or heterogeneity in the population were more likely to develop institutional structures that greatly benefited members of elite classes by providing them with more political influence and access to economic opportunities.
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From Principles of Political Economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the following sections are included: Of Co-operation, or The Combination of Labor of Production on a Large, and production on a Small Scale, and of Cooperation and Cooperation of Labor
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Principles of Political Economy
TL;DR: The subject of Wealth has in all ages always constituted one of the chief practical interests of mankind, and, in some cases, a most unduly engrossing one as discussed by the authors.
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Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth Century
Anatole G. Mazour,Jerome Blum +1 more
TL;DR: The Lord and Peasant in Russia (LPS) as discussed by the authors is a monograph on landlords and peasants in Russia that explores in almost seven hundred pages the legal and social evolution of its predominantly agricultural population, the types of peasant status, and the multifaceted nature of the master-peasant relationship.
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The rise of serfdom in eastern Europe
TL;DR: In this article, the authors make an effort to suggest explanations for the difference in the development of the lord-peasant relation in these two regions, and they refer to these lands collectively as "Eastern Europe", although, of course, some of them are sometimes included in Central Europe and although the countries of Southeastern Europe are not treated in this study.