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18 Cards in this Set
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8 euro countries that colonized 125 countries
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Belgium
Britain France Germany Italy Holland Portugal Spain |
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stability of relative levels of economic development
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**positions have persisted for over 100 yrs
social development somewhat less stable |
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polarization of world economy
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-richer countries growing richer, faster
-income gap btwn rich & poor countries steadily increasing -relative position of countries w/i world economy stable |
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exceptions to stability of int'l rankings
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Korea
Taiwan (highly interventionist policies, development not driven by free market) |
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Latin America and stability of rankings
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consistently poor in comparison with rest of world
stability of positions w/i LA as well |
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MAHONEY'S CENTRAL (GENERAL) QUESTION
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Why are some countries more developed than others?
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circumstances that create economic growth
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-periods of exceptional growth rare, not often so sustained that they create upward mobility
-some movement from middle income to core -strong state industrial policy, highly interventionist policies as in Korea, Taiwan, Japan |
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lack of mobility w/i world hierarchy
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need to investigate relative level of development at their origin
quest for LEGACY OF COLONIALISM- what level of development did it implant |
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level of colonialism
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level of implantation of metropolitan structures, institutions in the colony
*power of colonizer to transplant the civilization they represent to new environment |
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level of colonialism = product of...
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interaction btwn:
1) type of colonizing power (merc/lib) 2) type of colonized society (complexity @ 1st contact) |
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problem with these 2-pronged scheme
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ex- British colonialism in US, ppl who populated N & S parts of country very similar, but British established diff. colonial societies
N= industrial/suited to economic devel. S= agricultural/plantation |
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higher levels of mercantile colonialism meant...
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colonizers imposed restrictions on economic participation, granted exclusive rights to privileged merchants, coercive labor systems, ethnoracial stratification
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mercantilist actors & the problems they pose
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powerful coalitions of anti-market actors dependent on monopolistic privileges create roadblocks to later development once artificial colonial supports torn down
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fate of indigenous populations under heavy mercantilist colonialism
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systematic deprivation, long-run poverty
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lower levels of mercantile colonialism meant...
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neglect by colonizers
-absence of monopolistic merchants/landed classes -indians more actively incorporated into society |
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The Great Reversal (in levels of ec. devel.)
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pre-colonial territories that were most economically advanced (state-like societies) tended to become least economically developed postcolonial nations under BOTH mercantilist and liberal colonialism
*and vice versa, irrespective of colonizer |
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Mahoney's 2 periods of Spanish Colonialism
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1. 1492-1700: Habsburg, mercantilism
2. 1700-1810: Bourbon, tendencies toward liberalism |
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problem w/ Mahoney's periodization
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rise in Cuba's plantation economy happened in 19th cent. as Spain moved toward liberalism
-still using coercive labor |
