Economic Development in the Americas since 1500: Endowments and Institutions

About Kenneth L. SokoloffStanley L. Engerman

Stanley L. Engerman is John H. Munro Professor of Economics and Professor of History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of Slavery Emancipation and Freedom: Comparative Perspectives (2007) Naval Blockades in Peace and War (with Lance Davis 2007) and Finance Intermediaries and Economic Development (with Philip T. Hoffman Kenneth L. Sokoloff and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Cambridge University Press 2003). He is a co-editor of the three-volume Cambridge Economic History of the United States (with Robert E. Gallman) and The Cambridge World History of Slavery (with Keith Bradley Paul Cartledge and David Eltis). Kenneth L. Sokoloff (19522007) was a Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of California Los Angeles. Among his many publications he co-authored Human Capital and Institutions: A Long-Run View (with David Eltis and Frank D. Lewis Cambridge University Press 2009) and Finance Intermediaries and Economic Development (with Stanley L. Engerman Philip T. Hoffman and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Cambridge University Press 2003).