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Sailing through history : the legacy of medieval sea trade on migrant perception and extreme right voting
Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2024
In this study we evaluate the role that Mediterranean Medieval trade with Africa and the Middle-East still plays today in Italian politics by shaping the attitudes towards migrants of individuals that live close to Medieval ports. Trade connections between Medieval ports and Muslim Africa and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533686
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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003959313
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Ottoman conquests and European ecclesiastical pluralism
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … the first half of the 16th century with the Ottoman Empire's territorial expansion in Eastern Europe. Various historical … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003278952
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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper I illustrate their long-term consequences. I first consider the influence of the slave trade on the "sending" countries in Africa, with attention to their economic,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283184
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Why did the Netherlands develop so early? : the legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Akçomak, İbrahim Semih; Webbink, Herman Dinand; Weel, … - 2013
This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697679
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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Was Weber wrong? : A human capital theory of protestant economic history
Becker, Sascha O. (contributor);  … - 2007
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003610049
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Monotheism (from a sociopolitical and economic perspective)
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2007
The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003566281
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
Western Europe. Finally, cross-country analyses seek to understand the broader determinants of religious practice and its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
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Clans, guilds, and markets : apprenticeship institutions and growth in the pre-industrial economy
De la Croix, David; Doepke, Matthias; Mokyr, Joel - 2016
In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions … explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within extended families or clans. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455581