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Instability, economic stagnation and the role of islam in the North Caucasus
Dobler, Constanze - 2011
history ; religion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486280
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Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
Leonard, Carol Scott; Nazarov, Zafar; Borodkin, Leonid I.; … - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 93-104
This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty...
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The Carolingians, the Church, & the Medieval Constitution
Young, Andrew T. - 2018
In the eighth century, Charles Martel confiscated Church property to make distributions of benefices and precaria to his vassals. This project was an investment in state capacity and secularizations of Church property were continued under Charles' son Pippin III. Many scholars have characterized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927197
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Religion and the Great Divergence of East and West : The Persistent Effects of Networks of Church and State in the Economic History of China and Europe
Root, Hilton L. - 2022
economy. “…indeed society developed only so fast as religion enlarged its sphere. We cannot say that religious progress …
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Internal Geography and External Trade : Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
A'Hearn, Brian - 2013
This paper explores the interactions between external trade and regional disparities in the Italian economy since unification. It argues that the advantage of the North was initially based on natural advantage (in particular the endowment of water, intensive in silk production). From 1880...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084814
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Origins of Political Change. The Case of Late Medieval Guild Revolts
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
This study investigates the origins of the guild revolts in late medieval central Europe. At first, using newly compiled city level data, their temporal evolution and spatial distribution is discussed. Afterwards, the paper provides a historical discussion and empirical analysis of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014140573
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Urban Autonomy : Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
Gatti, Fabio - 2022
Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405131
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The long-run weight of communism or the weight of long-run history?
Roland, Gérard - 2010
This study provides evidence that culture understood as values and beliefs moves very slowly. Despite massive institutional change, values and beliefs in transition countries have not changed much over the last 20 years. Evidence suggests that culture is affected by the long run historical past,...
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Religion in economic history: a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This chapter surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239065
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Religion in economic history : a survey
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020
This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic … causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms … monotheistic character of the Abrahamic religions facilitated a close historical interconnection of religion with political power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012229328