Political institutions, economic liberty and the great divergence

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Gary W Cox, Stanford University

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Project Citation: 

Cox, Gary W. Political institutions, economic liberty and the great divergence. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-05-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E100636V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary This is the replication package for "Political institutions, economic liberty and the great divergence."

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms political economy
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Eurasia
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1/1/0600 – 1/1/1800
Universe:  View help for Universe All Eurasian (and North African) cities with population data in Chandler and/or Bairoch datasets.
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) aggregate data; census/enumeration data; program source code

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Bosker, Maarten, Eltjo Buringh, and Jan Luiten van Zanden.  “From Baghdad to London: Unraveling urban development in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, 800–1800.”  The Review of Economics and Statistics 95, no. 4 (2013): 1418–1437.

Bairoch, Paul, Jean Batou, and Pierre Chevre.  La Population des Villes Européennes, 800–1850. Geneva: Droz, 1988.

Chandler, Tertius.  Four Thousand Years of Urban Growth:  An Historical Census.  Lewiston, N.Y.:  St. David's University Press, 1987.



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