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The Columbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas

Author(s) -

Nathan Nunn,

Nancy Qian

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

the journal of economic perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.614

H-Index - 196

eISSN - 1944-7965

pISSN - 0895-3309

DOI - 10.1257/jep.24.2.163

Subject(s) - cultural exchange , foreign exchange , old world , focus (optics) , world history , economics , history , political science , development economics , ethnology , biology , ancient history , ecology , physics , optics , monetary economics

This paper provides an overview of the long-term impacts of the Columbian Exchange -- that is, the exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, technologies, populations, and cultures between the New World and the Old World after Christopher Columbus' voyage to the Americas in 1492. We focus on the aspects of the exchange that have been most neglected by economic studies; namely the transfer of diseases, food crops, and knowledge between the two Worlds. We pay particular attention to the effects of the exchange on the Old World.

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