Econ 210a: Memo Question for January 28, 2009: Primitive Accumulation

Readings:

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson (2005), "The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change, and Economic Growth," American Economic Review 95, PP. 546-79 http://tinyurl.com/dl20090122.

Jeffrey Williamson and Kevin O'Rourke, "After Columbus: Explaining Europe's Overseas Trade Boom, 1500-1800," Journal of Economic History 62, pp. 417-456 http://www.nber.org/papers/w8186.

Jan de Vries (forthcoming), "The Limits to Globalization in the Early Modern World," Economic History Review http://tinyurl.com/dl20090122a.

Karl Marx, "The So-called Primitive Capital Accumulation," Capital Vol. 1, Part VIII, Chs. 26-32 http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch.26.htm.

Ralph Austen and Woodruff D. Smith (1992), "Private Tooth Decay as Public Economic Virtue: The Slave-Sugar Triangle, Consumerism, and European Industrialization," in Joseph E. Imkori and Stanley L. Engerman, eds., The Atlantic Slave Trade (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press, 1992), pp. 183-203 http://tinyurl.com/dl20090122b.