A Historical Analysis of Japanese Road Improvement in Relation to Economic Development since World War II

This article examines how trading on two geographically separate financial markets reflected political events before and during World War II. Specifically, we compare sovereign debt prices on the Zurich and Stockholm stock exchanges and find considerable (but not complete) symmetry in the price responses across the two markets in relation to turning points in the war, which suggests that markets worked efficiently. The use of a quantitative methodology on historical financial market data represents a useful complement to traditional historical analysis, offering large-scale evidence of individuals acting in their own pecuniary interest without producing any lasting systematic biases.

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Getting to the core of the matter: The rise and fall of the Nova Scotia apple industry, 1862-1980

Canadian Food Studies / La Revue canadienne des études sur l alimentation ◽

10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.165 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 4-22

Author(s):

Anika Roberts-Stahlbrand

Keyword(s):

World War Ii ◽

Nova Scotia ◽

Historical Analysis ◽

Regime Theory ◽

Food Regime ◽

World War ◽

Apple Industry ◽

The Core

This article will apply food regime theory to an examination of the rise and fall of the apple industry in Nova Scotia between 1862 and 1980. From the 1860s until World War II, apples were a booming cross-Atlantic export business that continued the colonial bonds to Britain. But after the war, Britain developed its own domestic apple industry, and Nova Scotia apples failed to capture a loyal and secure market based on taste or quality. This led to the decline of the industry by the 1980s. Since that time, a new local apple industry based on taste and craft processing has arisen in Nova Scotia. This article affirms the broad historical analysis of food regime theory, while drawing attention to the need for an ecological enhancement of the theory.

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Why Nations Fail? (Keynote Video Lecture)

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v54i4i-iipp.301-312 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 54 (4I-II) ◽

pp. 301-312

Author(s):

Daron Acemoglu

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

World War Ii ◽

United States Of America ◽

Indian Subcontinent ◽

World War ◽

Great Pleasure ◽

Video Lecture ◽

The World ◽

Per Capita ◽

End Of The World

First of all, it is a great pleasure to be here. Thank you for inviting me. Given that communicating from a far is not the easiest thing to do, what I have decided to do is to give a quick overview of the arguments that have emerged from the book that James and I wrote. In fact, this book is a synthesis of about 16 years of research that James and I did. I think it is fair to say that a lot of economic development and economic growth is motivated by patterns that are reported in the book. In particular, this is data from Angus Madison’s life’s work, which is not entirely uncontroversial, but the overall pattern here is fairly uncontroversial. The patterns that we observe have actually been in the background of many attempts to understand long patterns of economic development. I think they also point out that it is going to be very difficult to understand why certain parts of the world that were either on par with, say, Asia, in particular the Indian Subcontinent and China, have increased their income per capita and their prosperity so much in 500 years leading to today, particularly from the period around early 1800s to essentially to the end of the World War II, where there is this big divergence taking place. The trends in economic development show that United States of America, Canada, New Zealand and Australia have pulled so much ahead of, say, Asia, where both India, the Indian Subcontinent in this case, and China more or less show the same picture, where there is not much growth going on until the end of the World War II.

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The scope of foreign direct investment in South Eastern Europe and the economy of SCG

Economic Annals ◽

10.2298/eka0668095b ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 51 (168) ◽

pp. 95-108

Author(s):

Milan Beslac

Keyword(s):

Economic Development ◽

World War Ii ◽

Foreign Capital ◽

Foreign Direct Investments ◽

World War ◽

Investment Funds ◽

Foreign Countries ◽

South Eastern Europe ◽

Privatization Process ◽

Sixth Decade

Foreign direct investments have had a long tradition in the modern Serbian history. The influence of the foreign capital on the Serbian economy was particularly expressed in the period between the two World Wars, when France England, Belgium, Germany and even Russia invested into Serbia. After World War II, until the end of the sixth decade, foreign direct investments were not stipulated in the legal regulations. In the last decade of the twentieth century and at the beginning of the twenty-first, the inflow of foreign direct investments has been provided for through the economy transformation and privatization process. In the last three years, privatization has been oriented only to sale and inflow of foreign capital, while the reverse process, i.e. investment into foreign countries (outflow), has been totally neglected. Therefore, orientation only to the FDI inflow constitutes both an opportunity and an obstacle to intensive economic development. Along with that, the following laws have not been passed yet: Law on Denationalization Law on Investment Funds and Law on Takeover of Joint-Stock Companies. Such laws will ensure completion of the privatization process and create an ambience for intensive economic development.

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