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How useful is anthropometric history? : some reflections on Paul Hohenberg's recent presidential address to the American Economic History Association

Komlos, John - 2009

In his recent presidential address to the American Economic History Association, Paul Hohenberg argued that … anthropometric history does not meet his criteria for useful research in the field of economic history. He considers research useful … the conclusion that anthropometric history has not been useful. …

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Decentralized despotism? : indirect colonial rule undermines contemporary democratic attitudes

Lechler, Marie; McNamee, Lachlan - 2017

This paper identifies indirect and direct colonial rule as causal factors in shaping support for democracy by exploiting a within-country natural experiment in Namibia. Throughout the colonial era, northern Namibia was indirectly ruled through a system of appointed indigenous traditional elites...

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Averting the Nazi seizure of power : a counterfactual thought experiment

Stoegbauer, Christian; Komlos, John - 2004

The Great Depression in Germany led to the radicalization of the electorate, leading the country and then the world into the darkest days of Western Civilization. Could it have been otherwise? This paper explores whether the NSDAP takeover might have been averted with a fiscal policy that...

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An anthropometric history of early-modern France

Komlos, John; Hau, Michel; Bourginat, Nicolas - 2003

The height of the French male population of the Ancien Régime is estimated, on the basis of military records, to have been about 162 cm in the 17th century. This extremely short stature implies that "the crisis of the 17th century" had an immense impact on the human organism itself. The...

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The International Monetary Fund : 70 years of reinvention

Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2015 - This draft: December 10, 2015

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a "demand driven" theory of institutional change … decades, banking crises and sovereign defaults became they key focus since the 1980s. Around this time, the IMF shifted from …

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