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Book Translations as Idea Flows : The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge

Abramitzky, Ran - 2014

We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in …

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Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance : Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany

Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...

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Highway to Hitler

Voigtlaender, Nico - 2014

Democracy is not an absorbing state; transitions to autocratic rule have been frequent throughout history and often followed periods of instability under democratic rule. In this paper, we ask whether autocrats can win support among voters by showcasing their ability to restore order and to "get...

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Bowling for Fascism : Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party

Satyanath, Shanker - 2013

Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the "dark side" of social capital, examining the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We collect new data on the density of associations in 229 German towns...

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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Voigtlaender, Nico - 2011

How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...

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Weak States : Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

We document that the spread of the Mafia in Sicily at the end of the 19th century was in part shaped by the rise of socialist Peasant Fasci organizations. In an environment with weak state presence, this socialist threat triggered landholders, estate managers and local politicians to turn to the...

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War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism : An Empirical Exploration

Acemoglu, Daron - 2020

of the rise of Fascism in inter-war years. In this paper, we argue that there was a strong link between the surge of … support for the Socialist Party after World War I (WWI) and the subsequent emergence of Fascism in Italy. We first develop a … elites played an important role in the rise of Fascism. Finally, we find greater likelihood of Jewish deportations in 1943 …

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Persistence through Revolutions

Alesina, Alberto F. - 2020

Can efforts to eradicate inequality in wealth and education eliminate intergenerational persistence of socioeconomic status? The Chinese Communist Revolution in the 1950s and Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 aimed to do exactly that. Using newly digitized archival records and contemporary...

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Good bye Lenin (or not?) : The Effect of Communism on People's Preferences

Alesina, Alberto - 2005

after controlling for economic incentives. This effect is especially strong for older cohorts, who lived under Communism for …

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Ideas Mobilize People : The Diffusion of Communist Ideology in China

Bai, Ying; Jia, Ruixue; Wang, Runnan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

the New Youth magazine--the major platform to promote Communism after the Treaty of Versailles in 1919--as well as the …

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