We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...

Introduction -- 1. The Extraordinary Changes -- 2. The Invertebrate World- 3. Theory for the New World -- 4. The Reason of State and Russia -- 5. Instability -- 6. Growing Global Divergence -- 7. Here We Go Again. - 8. The Syrian Crisis: See Between the Play of Mirrors -- 9. Economic Madness,...