There is growing recognition in the economics literature that African countries are characterized by very large economic disparities across subnational regions. Yet the lack of systematic and reliable empirical data at subnational levels of aggregation has made it difficult to explore possible...

I study how political competition affects the feasibility of free trade agreements (FTAs). I show that the possibility of political turnover creates strategic motivations for the formation of FTAs. Specifically, a government facing a high enough probability of losing power will have an incentive...

Machine generated contents note: 1. An Essay on Government and Governance 1 -- 2. The Political-Economic Logic of World Governance 39 -- 3. The Rule of Law and the Capture and Use of Government in a World of Inequality 61 -- 4. Hayek from the Perspective of an Institutionalist Historian of...

I Preliminaries: Introduction -- Abstract Social Choiuce Problems and Concrete Resource Allocation Problems -- Describing an Allocation Problem: a Checklist -- II Axiom Types: Axiom Format -- Axiom Content: Delineating Broad Categories -- Axiom Content: Punctual Requirements on Welfare...