In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could … policies could be effective. -- Great Depression ; Europe ; coordination failure …

This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of … from Western Europe we conclude that in terms of market integration the Great Divergence was well under way decades before …

- Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up to WWII. Works on Judaism address Jewish occupational specialization … economic consequences in present-day Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Much of the economics of Islam focuses on the role that … Islam and Islamic institutions played in political-economy outcomes and in the "long divergence" between the Middle East and …