Alexander Gerschenkron (Russian: Александр Гершенкрон; 1 October 1904 – 26 October 1978) was an American economic historian and professor at Harvard University...
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The Gerschenkron effect, developed by Alexander Gerschenkron, claims that changing the base year for an index determines the growth rate of the index....
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particularly in comparison with the 'backwardness' model developed by Alexander Gerschenkron. The two models are not necessarily mutually exclusive, however...
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Backwardness (section Gerschenkron's model)
The backwardness model is a theory of economic growth created by Alexander Gerschenkron. The model postulates that the more backward an economy is at the...
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efficiently provide inexpensive capital to industry and promote growth. Alexander Gerschenkron also advanced the hypothesis that universal banking was critical...
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advancing to the next stage in development. Another economic historian, Alexander Gerschenkron, complicated this theory with works on how economies develop in...
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PhD in economics from Harvard in 1970, where she studied under Alexander Gerschenkron. Her doctoral dissertation on the British iron and steel industry...
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relation to understanding historical chronology. Economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron has taken issue with the dichotomy, arguing that continuity "appears...
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thesis. Stanley Hoffmann, an authority on international relations; Alexander Gerschenkron, an eminent economic historian; H. Stuart Hughes, a specialist in...
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have been several major phases of development theory since 1945. Alexander Gerschenkron argued that the less developed the country is at the outset of economic...
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influential in economic growth than exogenous factors. For example, Alexander Gerschenkron states that governments can substitute for missing prerequisites...
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were settled on just over 600,000 hectares of land. According to Alexander Gerschenkron, with the passing of the law "a momentous decision was taken. German...
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army threatened to unbalance the budget. The economic historian Alexander Gerschenkron criticized his "penny pinching, 'not-one-heller-more policies',"...
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in 1960. At Harvard University, she was influenced by economists Alexander Gerschenkron and Robert Solow. She was a fellow of the American Association of...
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at Oxford. From the Economic History Association, he won their Alexander Gerschenkron prize in 1997. In 1998, Leunig joined the London School of Economics...
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(1963). "The Russian Peasantry". Past & Present (26): 102–109. Gerschenkron, Alexander (1964). ""Lord and Peasant in Russia from the Ninth to the Nineteenth...
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is a notion first formulated by the Russian-American economist Alexander Gerschenkron in 1952. However, there is one who argues that it was the American...
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Character (May 2002), is a memoir of his grandfather, the economist Alexander Gerschenkron. It was a finalist for the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in biography. A Seattle...
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Deryck Cooke, English musicologist and author (b. 1919) 1978 – Alexander Gerschenkron, Ukrainian-American historian, critic, and academic (b. 1904) 1979...
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Ertman, Birth of the Leviathan Peter B Evans, Embedded Autonomy Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective Peter A. Hall,...
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career Institution City College of New York Field Economic history Transportation economics Alma mater Harvard University Influences Alexander Gerschenkron...
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theorist Moshe Feldenkrais, inventor of the Feldenkrais method Alexander Gerschenkron, economic historian Jean Gottmann, geographer Lazar Gulkowitsch...
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practitioner of the New Economic History. At Harvard he studied under Alexander Gerschenkron. He completed his dissertation, Shipbuilding and Shipping in the...
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economics from Harvard University. His teachers at Harvard included Alexander Gerschenkron, Wassily Leontief and Edward Chamberlin.[citation needed] He began...
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Soviet Union Program at Harvard University for two years where Alexander Gerschenkron, Merle Fainsod, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Robert Lee Wolff and Isaiah...
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exhibitions data from early world's fairs. For her work, she received the Alexander Gerschenkron Prize, awarded by the Economic History Association to the best dissertation...
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Bismarck and the German Empire (London: Unwin University Books, 1968). Alexander Gerschenkron, Bread and Democracy in Germany (New York: Howard Fertig, 1966)...
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chemistry. However, he switched to studying economics under economist Alexander Gerschenkron. He graduated from Harvard in 1956. He attended the University of...
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(born 1952) Niall Ferguson (born 1964) Robert Fogel (1926–2013) Alexander Gerschenkron (1904–1978) Claudia Goldin (born 1946) Susan Howson (born 1945)...
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Germany–United States–France (New York: Howard Fertig, 1970), p. 86. Alexander Gerschenkron, Bread and Democracy in Germany (New York: Howard Fertig, 1966)...
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