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Fall 2011
This thesis explores the ways in which horses were bought, sold, traded and otherwise exchanged in late medieval England. The first chapter involves the comparison of two large estates ca. 1300 in England, one in the north of the country and one in the south, and how they dealt with issues of...
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Institutions and Economic Growth: How Institutional Change Triggers Divergence, Convergence, and Non-Zero Sums
DownloadFall 2022
The thesis explores the effect of institutional change on economic output. Chapters 1 and 2 are empirical and examine historical events. Chapter 1 makes the case that the Mongol Empire played a prominent role in the Industrial Revolution emerging in Western Europe. Western Europe developed...