the colonies that became the US after, not before, slavery; that out of the "scandal of empire" in India emerged a "race …

historical economic development. A notion of culture as heuristics or rules-of-thumb that aid in decision making is described … institutions that in turn were key for long-term economic development …

of over 21,000 bilateral trade observations during the Age of High Imperialism, 1870-1913, to quantitatively assess the …

This paper documents that the Rise of (Western) Europe between 1500 and 1850 is largely accounted for by the growth of …. Atlantic trade and colonialism affected Europe both directly, and indirectly by inducing institutional changes. In particular …, thus enabling new merchants in these countries to benefit from Atlantic trade. Therefore, the Rise of Europe was largely …

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to … influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of … CIA interventions aimed at installing and supporting leaders during the Cold War. Our presumption is that the US had …

. Results are presented for the U. S., Japan, and an aggregate called "Europe" consisting of eleven European economies. The … primary theme of the paper is that differences between Europe and the U. S. have been substantially exaggerated in recent work …. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the U. S. Evidence that the U. S. exhibits …

enough however, the relative price of capital goods, an important component of the user cost of capital has never been …