Anand Swamy and Tirthankar Roy on Law and the Economy
Ideas of India
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Comparative Economic Growth and Colonialism
There is a great advantage in doing that kind of work. En you identify a singular mechanism which is creating inequality, and that makes it easier to compare countries. When i teach this subject in the classroom, i have to tell the students that there are different types of uses of these histories. And if you apply this extractive state idea, take it too literally, then you will be a rather poor historian," he says.
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