Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. Once Upon a Time in the Americas: Land and Immigration Policies in the New World 13
6. 2. The Myth of the Frontier 49
7. 3. Differential Paths of Financial Development: Evidence from New World Economies 89
8. 4. Political Centralization and Urban Primacy: Evidence from National and Provincial Capitals in the Americas 121
9. 5. History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in Nineteenth- Century France 155
10. 6. Two Roads to the Transportation Revolution: Early Corporations in the United Kingdom and the United States 177
11. 7. Premium Inventions: Patents and Prizes as Incentive Mechanisms in Britain and the United States, 1750– 1930 205
12. 8. The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States during the Early Twentieth Century 235
13. 9. Mass Secondary Schooling and the State: The Role of State Compulsion in the High School Movement 275
14. 10. The Impact of the Asian Miracle on the Theory of Economic Growth 311
15. 11. Ken Sokoloff and the Economic History of Technology: An Appreciation 355
16. 12. Kenneth Sokoloff on Inequality in the Americas 363
17. 13. Remembering Ken, Our Beloved Friend 373
18. Contributors 375
19. Author Index 377
20. Subject Index 385