Institutions

For the lecture

 Either

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, "Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth," Ch. 6 in Handbook of Economic Growth, vol. 1 (2005), pp. 385-472.

 or

Ogilvie, Sheilagh and A. W. Carus, "Institutions and Economic Growth in Historical Perspective," Ch. 8 in Handbook of Economic Growth, vol. 2A (2014), pp. 403-513.

This is very long, but very good, though in covering a lot of ground it cannot go into much detail about any of the historical cases discussed.


Additional sources used in preparing the lecture

Acemoglu, Daron, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, "Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 117, no. 4 (Nov. 2002), pp. 1231-94.

--- , "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation," American Economic Review, vol. 91, no. 5 (Dec. 2001), pp. 1369-1401.

Allen, Robert, "Agriculture During the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1850," Ch. 6 in Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, 2 ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004), pp. 96-116.

--- . The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. Ch. 3 "The Agricultural Revolution," pp. 57-79.

Clark, Gregory, "Commons Sense: Common Property Rights, Efficiency, and Institutional Change," Journal of Economic History, vol. 58 no. 1 (Mar. 1998), pp. 73-102.

--- , "Common Rights to Land in England, 1475-1839," Journal of Economic History, vol. 61, no. 4 (Dec. 2001), pp. 1009-36.

Hall, Peter, and David Soskice, eds. Varieties of Capitalism. The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2001. Ch. 1 (An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism; 1-68).

Hoffman, Philip. Growth in a Traditional Society. The French Countryside, 1450-1815. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1996.

Fenoaltea, Stefano, "Risk, Transactions Costs, and the Organization of Medieval Agriculture," Explorations in Economic History, vol. 13 (1976), pp. 129-51.

McCloskey, Donald, "The Prudent Peasant: New Findings on the Open Fields," Journal of Economic History, vol. 51 no. 2 (June 1991), pp. 343-55.

The last (?) in a series of contributions by McCloskey on the topic. Here you will find references to the earlier ones.

Nyström, Lars, "Scattered Land, Scattered Risks? Harvest Variations on Open Fields and Enclosed Land in Southern Sweden c. 1750-1850," Research in Economic History, vol. 35 (2019).

Overton, Mark. Agricultural Revolution in England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. Chs. 2 (Farming in the sixteenth century; 10-62), 4 (Institutional change, 1500-1850; 133-92.).

Richardson, Gary, "The Prudent Village: Risk Pooling Institutions in Medieval English Agriculture," Journal of Economic History, vol. 65 no. 2 (June 2005), pp. 386-413.

Shaw-Taylor, Leigh, "Parliamentary Enclosure and the Emergence of an English Agricultural Proletariat," Journal of Economic History, vol. 61, no. 3 (Sept. 2001), pp. 640-62.


Readings for the seminar topics

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