economies, are false or need serious amendment in a world with international trade in goods. Since the three results we … a re-examination may be in order. Specifically, we demonstrate that in an open trading world, but not in a closed …

Fears that globalization necessarily hurts the environment are not well-founded. A survey reveals little statistical … Methods (PPMs), provided the measures do not discriminate among producer countries. People care about both the environment and …

We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism …. Collectivism leads to efficiency gains relative to individualism, but these gains are static, unlike the dynamic effect of … individualism on growth through innovation. Using genetic data as instruments for culture we provide strong evidence of a causal …

culture are more likely to end up adopting democracy earlier than countries with a collectivist culture. Our empirical … analysis suggests a strong and robust association between individualistic culture and average polity scores and length of … countries with collectivist culture are also more likely to experience autocratic breakdowns and transitions from autocracy to …

). Although the largest welfare costs from global warming are concentrated in the warmest parts of the developing world, adjusting …

the entire world and extends for centuries, the conditions for deploying benefit-cost analysis are often overlooked. Where …