The paper is devoted to an econometric analysis of learning foreign languages in all parts of the world. Our sample … learning while the world population of speakers of the native language generally discourages it. Trade with speakers of a … other three key variables (literacy rate, linguistic distance, and world population of native speakers) because its …

Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism". We argue that while all historiography features a number of silences, shortcomings or … omissions, the omissions in "How the West Came to Rule" lead to a mistaken view of the emergence of capitalism. There are two … of "capital" and "capitalism" that tilts them towards a theoretical stance that comes very close to arguing that …

N.S.B. Gras, the father of Business History in the United States, argued that the era of mercantile capitalism was … today's world of global business …