The sustainability of empire in a global perspective: the role of international trade patterns

I construct a model in which a colony trades raw materials for manufactures with the mother country and the rest of the world, and can rebel at the cost of some trade disruption with the mother country. Decolonisation is more likely when the rest of the world is more abundant in manufactures, or sca...

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Main Author: Bonfatti, Roberto
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43642/