Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of modern social science. This article discusses different...

Participative political institutions in late medieval cities in the German Lands had the potential to impact city size and growth. The study confirms the positive effect on economic outcomes of inclusive political institutions in 282 cities, as found by other studies, but supports a more...

Überblickswerk, welches die Entwicklung und soziale Organisation des Handwerks vom 11. bis zum ausgehenden 18. Jahrhundert unter Berücksichtigung von Wirtschafts- und Technikgeschichte europaweit behandelt. Anschaulich geschrieben, teilweise durch Illustrationen und tabellarische Aufzählungen...

Most textbooks introducing German law devote special attention to the corruption of law and legal institutions that took place during the Nazi dictatorship. And then they describe the period in German legal history after the Second World War. This era involved dramatic developments that...