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The Historical Legacy of (Pre?)Colonial Indigenous Settlements in Mexico

Arteaga, Fernando - 2018

What is the long-term impact of pre-colonial ethnic institutions? I examine the consequences of the fragmentation of local indigenous communities produced by Spanish rule in Mexico. To do this I make use of unique data from 18th century pueblos — the basis of modern-day counties — to study...

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Monetary and Fiscal History of Peru 1960-2010 : Radical Policy Experiments, Inflation and Stabilization

Martinelli, César - 2018

We describe Peru's experience of chronic inflation through the 1970s and 1980s as a result of the need for inflationary taxation in a regime of fiscal dominance of monetary policy. Hyperinflation occurred when further debt accumulation became unavailable, and a populist administration engaged in...

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The Mongol Conquest, State Capacity, and Historical Stagnation of Imperial China

Ho, Kaman - 2021

The Mongol conquest was one of the bloodiest wars in human history. The Mongol conquest of China (1205-1279 AD …

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Can Geography Explain Quebec's Historical Poverty?

Geloso, Vincent; Rouanet, Louis - 2021

From the 19th century to the 1940's, Quebec remained poorer and less economically developed than the rest of Canada in general and poorer than Ontario in particular. This placed Quebec at the bottom of North American rankings of living standards. One prominent hypothesis for the initiation of...

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Interstate Federalism : Challenges From the History of Classical Liberalism

Owens, Matthew; Coyne, Christopher J. - 2023

This chapters surveys the main ideas and tensions in the classical liberal treatment of defense, international relations, and war-making. This sets the stage for a discussion of the feasibility of interstate federalism by identifying key issues and challenges that such a system will need to...

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Early Spanish Liberalism and Constitutional Political Economy : The Cádiz Constitution of 1812

Congleton, Roger D. - 2010

The history of Spain is not usually associated with liberalism or constitutional innovation by most English or American … historians. This paper provides a brief history of the rise of liberalism in Spain and uses the Constitution of 1812 as a window … in France, Spanish history for the next two centuries might have been very different …

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