Dartmouth College Department of Economics 6106 Rockefeller Hall Hanover, NH 03755-3514
Meir Kohn
Telephone: 603-646-2648 Fax: 603-646-2122 Email: Meir.G.Kohn@Dartmouth.EDU
How I arrived at my research program A brief review of the literature on economic development and growth (PDF) Why conventional economic theory is of limited help in understanding economic development and growth (PDF)
Comments welcome! In particular, if you catch errors of fact, see flaws in the analysis, or find passages unclear, I would be most grateful if you would let me know. Please email me at mkohn@dartmouth.edu
How and Why Economies Develop and Grow: Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China
The Origins of Western Economic Success: Commerce, Finance, and Government in Preindustrial Europe
Related Working Papers
A Finance Approach to Understanding Patterns of Land Tenure (PDF) Payments and the Development of Finance in Preindustrial Europe (PDF)
Other Working Papers
An Empirical Measure of Asset Liquidity (PDF) The Financial Constraint Theory of Money: A Progress Report (PDF) Foster and Catchings and the Pollack Prize Essays: A Window on the Monetary Theory of the 1920's (PDF)