Abstract: Friedrich List (1789-1846) zählt zu den international renommiertesten Klassikern der Politischen Ökonomie. Sein Hauptwerk „Das nationale System der politischen Ökonomie“ von 1841 gehört nach John Carter und Percy H. Muir zu den herausragenden Publikationen der abendländischen...

Despite having been underlined as contrary to established fact, the myth that there is a causal link between Protestantism and the emergence of capitalism persists in the popuar imagination as well as the academy. This article illustrates where Max Weber’s theory contradicts all the available...

As the first to use an archival data set on historical land values of Berlin, Germany, from 1890 to 1936, we exploit exogenous variation in transport technology in order to test the validity of the monocentric city model. Endogenously determining the CBD, we conduct cross-section and...