obtain this result using county-level data from late nineteenth-century Prussia. This environment allows us to exploit both …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from late 19th-century Prussia reveal that Protestantism was indeed …

distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured …

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …