Powerful, centralized states controlling a large share of national income only begin to appear in Europe after 1500. We … success and patterns of state building in early modern Europe. The evidence is consistent with the predictions of our model …

Introduction -- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Global Context and the Rise … of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the … most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the …