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The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation

in Papers Messing With My Brain by Malik Torres

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Authors
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson
Year
2001
Field
Development / economic history
One big idea
Colonial-era institutions—shaped partly by settler mortality—left long-run footprints on today’s income levels.
My take
The identification is spicy, the debates are spicier, but as a story linking history to GDP today it’s absolute catnip.

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