New Comparative Economic History - Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G Williamson

Acknowledgments ix Introduction: The New Comparative Economic History 1(8) Timothy J. Hatton Kevin H. O'Rourke Alan M. Taylor India in the Great Divergence 9(24) Robert C. Allen What Made Britannia Great? How Much of the Rise of Britain to World Dominance by 1850 Does the Industrial Revolution Explain? 33(26) Gregory Clark Did European Commodity Prices Converge during 1500--1800? 59(28) Suleyman Ozmucur Sevket Pamuk Market Integration and Convergence in the World Wheat Market, 1800--2000 87(28) Giovanni Federico Karl Gunnar Persson Biological Globalization: The Other Grain Invasion 115(26) Alan L. Olmstead Paul W. Rhode Other People's Money: The Evolution of Bank Capital in the Industrialized World 141(24) Richard S. Grossman Education, Migration, and Regional Wage Convergence in U.S. History 165(28) William J. Collins Democracy and Protectionism 193(24) Kevin H. O'Rourke Alan M. Taylor A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies? 217(24) Timothy J. Hatton Jeffrey G. Williamson Breaking the Fetters: Why Did Countries Exit the Interwar Gold Standard? 241(26) Holger C. Wolf Tarik M. Yousef Were Jews Political Refugees or Economic Migrants? Assessing the Persecution Theory of Jewish Emigration, 1881--1914 267(24) Leah Platt Boustan Inequality and Poverty in Latin America: A Long-Run Exploration 291(26) Leandro Prados de la Escosura The Convergence of Living Standards in the Atlantic Economy, 1870--1930 317(26) George R. Boyer You Take the High Road and I'll Take the Low Road: Economic Success and Well-Being in the Longer Run 343(22) Cormac O Grada Euro-Productivity and Euro-Jobs since the 1960s: Which Institutions Really Mattered? 365(30) Gayle J. Allard Peter H. Lindert Afterword 395(6) Lawrence H. Summers Contributors 401(2) Index 403