Shocking contrasts : political responses to exogenous supply shocks /
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| Author / Creator: | Rogowski, Ronald, author. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023. |
| Description: | xxii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Political economy of institutions and decisions Political economy of institutions and decisions. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13159800 |
Table of Contents:
- How supply shocks arise and why political responses to them vary
- Who adjusts to a supply shock and who resists it: Three determining factors
- Why a technological solution does, or does not, emerge
- Exogenous loss of labor : the Black Death in fourteenth century Europe
- Exogenous gain of labor : railroads, reproduction, and revolution : the Russian population explosion between 1850 and 1914
- Exogenous loss of land : blockade, hunger, and the Nazi pursuit of Lebensraum
- Exogenous increase of human capital : French Huguenots in German cities and principalities, 1685-1715
- When the endogenous becomes exogenous : the printing press as a multiplier of human capital
- Conclusion : the role of other factors, including institutions, ideas, and human agency.
