The Long Economic And Political Shadow Of History Volume Iii Europe And The Americas Stelios Michalopoulos by Stelios Michalopoulos, Elias Papaioannou 9780995470170, 0995470170 instant download after payment.

Most historians would agree with William Faulkner’s famous line “The past is never dead. It’s not even past”. This e-Book shows that perhaps unexpectedly a surprising number of economists concur. Motivated by tomes of scholarly work on European and American history Economists in this collection trace the legacies of some of these landmark events on contemporary economic outcomes as well as peoples’ attitudes and beliefs. Starting from the Americas the e-Book summarises works assessing the modern-day consequences of colonial forced labour practices in Peru, missionary activity in South America, the sugar-cane and gold booms in Brazil, the native population forced coexistence in reserves across the US, the transition to a mechanised agricultural economy as a result of the 1927 Mississippi Flood, and how the influx of European scientists fleeing Europe in the early part of the 20th century shaped the US inventive capacity. The tour de force in Europe starts with the rise of city states in Italy, continues with the Protestant Reformation, the birth of the modern corporation, the origins and impact of anti-Semitism and the holocaust, and ends with the legacy of the communist era in Germany and of the Nazi occupation of Italy.
To get to these fascinating questions, a wealth of diverse sources including historical archives, linguistic sources and anthropological maps, are cleverly combined and subjected to state of the art econometric techniques and theoretical models. The findings of this ambitious research agenda are novel highlighting the shadow of history on various aspects of the economy and the polity. While there are many open issues and debates and although development is not deterministic, one message is clear: We are shaped by history (Martin Luther King Jr).