Book Reviews : Clifton R. Wharton (eds.), Subsistence Agriculture and Economic Development. Chicago, Aldine Publishing Co., 1969, pp. 481, $ 12.50

1972 ◽  
Vol 13 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 266-267
Author(s):  
E. S. Clayton
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Subsistence Agriculture

Book Reviews

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Laurence McFalls ◽  
Jeffrey J. Anderson ◽  
Vanessa Beck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
German Unification ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Duke University

Jennifer A. Yoder, From East Germans to Germans? The New Postcommunist Elitesn(Durham: Duke University Press, 1999)Review by Laurence McFallsHölscher, Jens and Anja Hochberg, eds., East Germany’s Economic Development Since Unification: Domestic and Global Aspects (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)Review by Jeffrey J. AndersonBrigitte Young, Triumph of the Fatherland. German Unification and the Marginalization of Women (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999) Review by Vanessa Beck

Book Reviews

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-818
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
The United States ◽  
Factor Endowments ◽  
University Of Wisconsin ◽  
European Colonization ◽  
The University ◽  
Relative Differences

Jeffrey G. Williamson of Harvard University and University of Wisconsin reviews “Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions” by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. The EconLit abstract of the reviewed work begins: Eleven papers explore differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada, and consider how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. Papers discuss paths of development -- an overview; factor endowments and institutions; the role of institutions in shaping factor endowments; the evolution of suffrage institutions; the evolution of schooling – 1800–1925; inequality and the evolution of taxation; land and immigration policies; politics and banking systems; five hundred years of European colonization; institutional and noninstitutional explanations of economic development; and institutions in political and economic development. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. The late Sokoloff was Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Bibliography; index.

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