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Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Yıldırım, Sadullah; … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2015

State and religion, two of the oldest institutions known to mankind, have historically had a close relationship with … relationship in recent centuries, the state-religion alliance remains strong in some societies. We use a political economy approach … and a unique dataset to examine the relationship between state and religion since the year 1000. We constructed the data …

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Theocracy

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

theocracy, such as the organization of the religion market, monotheism vs. polytheism, and strength of the ruler. We use two …

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Guns and Books: Legitimacy, Revolt and Technological Change in the Ottoman Empire

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Rubin, Jared - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2009

New technologies have not always been greeted with great enthusiasm. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited for almost three hundred years to allow the first book to be printed in Arabic script. We explain differential reaction to technology...

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State and Religion

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2008

State and religion have historically had an uneasy relationship, at times being close allies, at others harsh … collection. If the latter effect is strong enough, the state may find it optimal to take control of religion, either to enhance … its legitimizing effect, or to suppress its delegitimizing effect. Greater competition in the religion market and …

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Conversations between Anthropologists and Economists

Cosgel, Metin - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2005

incentives of the parties involved. Those in the second genre deal with the problem of knowledge--how to align localized, and …

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The Political Economy of Mass Printing: Legitimacy and Technological Change in the Ottoman Empire

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Rubin, Jared - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2010

New technologies have not always been greeted with full enthusiasm. Although the Ottomans were quick to adopt advancements in military technology, they waited almost three centuries to sanction printing in Ottoman Turkish (in Arabic characters). Printing spread relatively rapidly throughout...

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Intergenerational Wealth Accumulation and Dispersion in the Ottoman Empire: Observations from Eighteenth-Century Kastamonu

Cosgel, Metin; Ergene, Bogac A. - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2010

This article studies the accumulation and intergenerational transmission of wealth in early-modern Ottoman Anatolia by employing data from probate estate inventories (terekes) as found in the court records (sicils) of eighteenth-century Kastamonu, a town located in northern Anatolia. Extracting...

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The Political Economy of Law and Economic Development in Islamic History

Cosgel, Metin - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2012

There appear to be two seemingly contradictory images of law and economic change in the Islamic world. Whereas some scholars have viewed Islamic societies as rigid and incapable of adapting to a changing environment, others have held the opposite image of Islamic societies as flexible, quick to...

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The Fiscal Regime of an Expanding State: Political Economy of Ottoman Taxation

Cosgel, Metin - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013

An expanding state has to decide how to tax the newly conquered lands, most likely taxed under a different regime. It can either preserve the prevailing system of taxation or change it to conform to its own system. The choice depends on the relative efficiency of the two systems, political...

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Controlling Corruption in Law Enforcement: Incentives, Safeguards, and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire

Cosgel, Metin; Miceli, Thomas; Ergene, Bogac A.; Etkes, … - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2011

Until the seventeenth century, the Ottomans used fines extensively for law enforcement and employed agents to collect the fines. Fines can be costly to implement because of agency problems and corruption. To solve the problem of corruption, the Ottomans implemented a variety of mechanisms,...

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