Persistence of fortune: Accounting for population movements, there was no Post-Columbian reversal

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1-28

  Chanda, Areendam ^a   Justin Cook, C ^b   Putterman, Louis ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84903887822     PISSN: 19457707     EISSN: 19457715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1257/mac.6.3.1     Document Type: Article

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