Like the rest of the poor periphery, Mexico had to deal with de-industrialization forces between 1750 and 1913, those … the periphery. This paper explores the sources of Mexican exceptionalism with de-industrialization. It decomposes those …

and by an equally rapid process of deindustrialization. The great majority of East German SOEs have been privatized and …

I document a significant deindustrialization trend in recent decades, that goes considerably beyond the advanced, post … deindustrialization has potentially significant economic and political ramifications, including lower economic growth and democratic …

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledge-intensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R&D because it … distorts occupational choice. We study this possibility in the context of a model with horizontal innovation, where the …

with a range of political economy outcomes -- civil conflict, redistribution, economic growth and the provision of public …, originating thousands of years ago, lead to measures of diversity that are better predictors of civil conflict and redistribution …