monetary unions intact. Our main lesson from the history of monetary unions is that political factors will be the central …

the reasons why these two forces moved largely in parallel in the decades leading up to World War I, collapsed during the …

live longer. We review the determinants of these patterns: over history, over countries, and across groups within countries …

until the First World War. News events and macroeconomic variables cannot account for this extended period of reduced …

the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history …

World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …

The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti … concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of …