While there is a rich literature on the benefits of empire in terms of the provision of key public goods—notably security for international trade—the costs have been downplayed. In this paper, we focus on merchant shipping data between Canada and Britain between 1764 and 1860 to measure...

We test the history-augmented Solow model with respect to its predictions on the patterns of divergence and convergence between the nowadays industrialized countries of the OECD. We show that the dispersion of incomes increased after the Industrial Revolution, peaked during the Second World War,...

Surveillance and democracy: sympathies and antagonisms -- Surveillance theory meets participatory theory -- The cases: ANPR, credit scoring and neighbourhood watch -- Search and indignify: automatic number plate recognition -- Blacklists and black holes: credit scoring -- Peers and prejudice:...

Notes on Contributors Foreword Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Angelica Bonfanti 2 Sustainable Development Goals in Europe and Their Intersection with the Business and Human Rights Framework Paolo Davide Farah 3 Managing Global Interdependencies through Law and Governance:...

Part I: Sustainability initiatives and governance -- 1. Strategies and best practices for greening festivals / Rachel Dodds -- 2. Promoting and assessing sustainability at festivals : a case study of the 'a Greener Festival' initiative / Graham Berridge, Teresa Moore, Jane Ali-Knight -- 3. The...