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Doctoral Dissertation Research: Economic Development in the Liberal State

博士论文研究：自由国家的经济发展

基本信息

批准号：
9811399
负责人：
Christopher Chase-Dunn
金额：
$ 0.75万
依托单位：
Johns Hopkins University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1998
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1998-09-01 至 2000-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9811399&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Doctoral Dissertation Research Economic Development

项目摘要

The proposed doctoral dissertation research is a comparative-historical study of the relationship between banking system structure and economic growth. The basic theory underlying the research is that if bankers possess a shared institutional preference for lending to commercial borrowers, then society's allocation of economic resources is shifted towards investment rather than consumption, leading to accelerated economic development. In particular, it is hypothesized that the impetus for the industrial revolution in Britain and America can be traced to social, rather than economic, factors. The direct relationship between bankers' lending practices and the early industrial revolution will be explored through the analysis of loan agreements, business correspondence, and committee meeting minutes from 18th century bank archives in Scotland, England and New York. Preliminary results suggest that differences in banking system structure may account for as much as 25% of the cross-national variance in growth rates. Data is lacking, however, for those countries that do not have commercial banking systems, among which are most of the poorest countries in the world. To the extent that conditions in those countries resemble pre-industrial conditions in the now-industrialized countries, an understanding of how early financial systems first fostered development during the Industrial Revolution will shed light on the prospects for economic development through banking reform in poor countries today.

本论文的研究内容是对银行体系结构与经济增长关系的历史比较研究。研究的基本理论是，如果银行家拥有向商业借款人贷款的共同制度偏好，那么社会的经济资源配置将转向投资而不是消费，从而导致经济加速发展。特别是，有人假设，英国和美国工业革命的动力可以追溯到社会因素，而不是经济因素。通过对苏格兰、英格兰和纽约的世纪银行档案中的贷款协议、商业信函和委员会会议记录的分析，探讨银行家的贷款行为与早期工业革命之间的直接关系。初步结果表明，银行体系结构的差异可能占增长率跨国差异的25%。然而，缺乏没有商业银行系统的国家的数据，其中大多数是世界上最贫穷的国家。这些国家的条件与现在工业化国家的工业化前条件相似，因此，了解早期金融体系如何在工业革命期间首先促进发展，将有助于了解当今贫穷国家通过银行改革实现经济发展的前景。