Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe's early rise to riches
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- dc.contributor.author Voigtländer, Nico
- dc.contributor.author Voth, Hans-Joachim
- dc.contributor.other Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Departament d'Economia i Empresa
- dc.date.accessioned 2020-05-25T09:27:00Z
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- dc.date.issued 2013-09-01
- dc.date.modified 2020-05-25T09:23:58Z
- dc.description.abstract Today, per capita income differences around the globe are large varying by as much as a factor of 35 across countries (Hall and Jones 1999). These differentials mostly reflect the "Great Divergence" (Sam Huntingon) the fact that Western Europe and former European colonies grew rapidly after 1800, while other countries grew much later or stagnated. What is less well-known is that a "First Divergence" preceded the Great Divergence: Western Europe surged ahead of the rest of the world long before technological growth became rapid. Europe in 1500 was already twice as rich on a per capita basis as Africa, and one-third richer than most of Asia (Maddison 2007). In this essay, we explain how Europe's tumultuous politics and deadly penchant for warfare translated into a sustained advantage in per capita incomes.
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- dc.identifier https://econ-papers.upf.edu/ca/paper.php?id=1383
- dc.identifier.citation Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27 (4), 165-186, 2013
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/21127
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.relation.ispartofseries Economics and Business Working Papers Series; 1383
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- dc.subject.keyword Economic and Business History
- dc.subject.keyword Macroeconomics and International Economics
- dc.title Gifts of Mars: Warfare and Europe's early rise to riches
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