We investigate the long term determinants of political and economic outcomes over a new data set composed of Mississippi counties. We analyze the effect of disfranchisement on voting registration at the end of the nineteenth century (1896-9), as well as the impact of voting registration on...

The empirical literature on economic growth and development has moved from the study of proximate determinants to the analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on the measurement and estimation of the effects of...

Der Beitrag zeigt die Perspektiven eines Landes auf, das sich in den letzten 20 Jahren zum führenden Ölexporteur der Welt entwickelte, Einfluß in der Welt und im Mittleren Osten gewann und zugleich eine der fundamentalsten sozio-ökonomischen Transformationen der modernen Zeit erlebte. Dieser...

Waves of military technological changes have swept through the Eurasian land mass since the dawn of civilization. Military technological changes decisively shaped geopolitics and the fortunes of states, empires and civilizations. In his book Jimmy Teng claims that to understand the impacts of...