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Railways: Emergence and Development
The most substantial public sector investment in the colonial economies in the nineteenth century was in the building of the railwaysrailways....
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After Being Left Out of the First, Second, and Third Industrial Revolutions, Is Africa Finally Prepared for the Fourth Industrial Revolution?
Throughout history, there have been several revolutions, and, as a direct result of their separate actions, every one of them has caused the pace of...
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The Political Economy of the Statist and Socio-Corporatist Welfare States in Latin America
The fact that in most Latin American countries the politico-legitimating role of social protection policies was not only foundational, but continues...
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The Slave Trade, Imperialism, Colonialism and Neocolonialism: The Rise of the Western and World Economy, and Unjust Enrichment
What is the long-term cost to Africa of the European slave trade in development terms, and the long-run positive contribution to the structural...
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The Ministerial Role: Activism and Agency
There have been a number of academic categorisations of the role or roles of a government minister, but former ministers, as practitioners, have an...
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“Political Economy”: The Making of a North-South Planet
The Industrial Revolution gave birth not just to a radical change in material circumstances. It also gave birth to a new intellectual current, based...
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Introduction
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is one of the oldest organizations in the United Nations (UN) system. It predates the UN by more than...
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A Pull–Push Theory of Industrial Revolutions
This paper presents a pull–push theory of industrial revolutions. Generalizing from the first industrial revolution in England and the second...
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The Philippines Railway: A Link with Hong Kong
The successive independence of Spanish colonies in South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century affected Spain’s territorial disposition,...
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Telecommunications: Extending the Network
In the post-World War II years one of the most important areas of government involvement in network utilities was in the communications sector. This...
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**’s Reverse Course: The Nazification of the Chinese Economy (After 2012)
This chapter delves into **’s strategies for managing the crises stemming from China’s crony comprador capitalist development. Focusing on...
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Macroeconomics and the Pursuit of Ruralism
This chapter looks at Colin Clark’s growing disconnect with conventional economics, including proposals for a rural nirvana and opposition to tariff...
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Igbo Community in the Old Sokoto Province During the Colonial Era, 1903–1960
This study x-rays the activities of IgboIgbo Community in the Old Sokoto Province from 1903 to 1960. The year 1903 was the year that the colonization...
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Origin and Development of Infrastructure Economics
This chapter first surveys the views of famous scholars and major theories on infrastructure. On this basis, it collects the empirical evidence of...
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Did the great influenza of 1918–1920 trigger a reversal of the first era of globalization?*
I revisit the 1918–20 pandemic and ask whether it led to a reversal in the rise of trade and financial globalization that preceded it. Using annual...
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China and the Changing Global Monetary Landscape
For most of the past seventy years China has played a relatively small role in the global monetary landscape.
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Early Reflections on the Democratization of Organized Markets and Their Regulations
The early scientific literature which developed with the emergence of organized speculation on financial and commodity markets in the second half of...
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Views on the Enterprise Organization System Construction
To raise enough capital for economic development, Western companies designed a joint-stock system of operations. Approving this mode of operation,...
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Russia on the Move: Railroads and the Exodus from Compulsory Collectivism, 1861–1914
The advent of the railroad in Tsarist Russia in 1842 would precondition the institutions of the Russian autocracy in its final decades. In this...