Can Kings Create Towns that Thrive? The long-run implications of new town foundations
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Keywords
Economic geography; Economic history; Path dependency; Urbanization; Agricultural surplus;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O18 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
- R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
- R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
- N74 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Europe: 1913-
- N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GEO-2019-01-07 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-GRO-2019-01-07 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2019-01-07 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-URE-2019-01-07 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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