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Kris Inwood
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴 Editing Social Science History & Asia-Pacific Econ History
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Property rights matter! In Qing Taiwan the pawning rather than sale of land improved economic efficiency in the presence of weak state capacity by easing land transfer to strangers, according to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. OA 📉📈🗃🏺📗 #history#AcademicSky#policy
Property rights in a weak state: Evidence from land pawning in Qing Taiwan (1683–1895)
Land pawning is considered inefficient because it causes property rights to be unclearly delineated. Despite this, it once prevailed worldwide. We propose that this system flourished when state capac....
KI
Kris Inwood
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated. 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴 Editing Social Science History & Asia-Pacific Econ History
6.2k followers5.3k following217 posts