The first Great Divergence and the evolution of cross-country income inequality during the last millennium: the role of institutions and culture

References

• Acemoglu, D. and Johnson, S. (2005) Unbundling institutions, Journal of Political Economy, 113, 949–95.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S. and Robinson, J. (2002) Reversal of fortune: geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 117, 1231–94.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Acemoglu, D., Johnson, S. and Robinson, J. (2005) The rise of Europe: Atlantic trade, institutional change, and economic growth, American Economic Review, 95, 546–79.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Becker, S. O. and Woessmann, L. (2009) Was Weber wrong? A human capital theory of protestant economic history, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 124, 531–96.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Davies, G. (1996) A History of Money from Ancient Times to the Present Day, University of Wales Press, Cardiff.
   Google Scholar
• DeLong, J. B. and Shleifer, A. (1993) Princes and merchants: city growth before the industrial revolution, Journal of Law and Economics, 36, 671–702.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Deng, G. (1999) Maritime Sector, Institutions, and Sea Power of Premodern China, Greenwood Press, Westport, CT.
   Google Scholar
• Doepke, M. and Zilibotti, F. (2008) Occupational choice and the spirit of capitalism, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 123, 747–93.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Galor, O. (2011) Unified Growth Theory, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
   Google Scholar
• Galor, O. and Moav, O. (2006) Das human-kapital: a theory of the demise of the class structure, Review of Economic Studies, 73, 85–117.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Galor, O. and Weil, D. N. (2000) Population, technology, and growth: from Malthusian stagnation to the demographic transition and beyond, American Economic Review, 90, 806–28.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hansen, G. D. and Prescott, E. C. (2002) Malthus to Solow, American Economic Review, 92, 1205–17.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heine, S. J. (2007) Cultural Psychology, W. W. Norton Company Inc., New York.
   Google Scholar
• Huntington, S. P. (1996) The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Simon & Schuster, New York.
   Google Scholar
• Landes, D. S. (1998) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor, W. W. Norton Company Inc., New York.
   Google Scholar
• Landes, D. S. (2006) Why Europe and the West? Why Not China?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 20, 3–22.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Langer, W. L. (1972) An Encyclopedia of World History, 5th edn., Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, MA.
   Google Scholar
• Lucas, R. E. (2002) Lectures on Economic Growth, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
   Google Scholar
• Maddison, A. (1995) Monitoring the World Economy 1820–1992: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, OECD Publishing, Paris.
   Google Scholar
• Maddison, A. (2003) The World Economy: Historical Statistics, OECD Publishing, Paris.
   Google Scholar
• Mokyr, J. (2005) Long-term economic growth and the history of technology, in Handbook of Economic Growth, Aghion, P. and Durlauf, S. (Eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam.
   Google Scholar
• Murray, C. (2003) Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950, Harper Collins Publishers, New York.
   Google Scholar
• North, D. C. and Thomas, R. P. (1973) The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
   Google Scholar
• Pacey, A. (1990) Technology in World Civilization: A Thousand-year History, Basil Blackwell Ltd., Oxford.
   Google Scholar
• Pirenne, J. (1963) The Tides of History, Volume II: From the Expansion of Islam to the Treaties of Westphalia, George Allen, London & Unwin, E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., New York.
   Google Scholar
• Weber, M. (2002) (first published in 1905) ‘Churches’ and ‘Sects’ in North America, The Protestant Ethic and the “Spirit” of Capitalism and Other Writings. Available at http://www.archive.org/details/protestantethics00webe (accessed 27 April 2013).
   Google Scholar
• Williamson, O. E. (1985) The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, The Free Press, New York.
   Google Scholar