This paper explains the multiple adoption of agriculture around ten thousand years ago, in spite of the fact that the …first farmers suffered worse health and nutrition than their hunter gatherer predecessors. If output is harder for farmers to defend, adoption may entail increased defense...

De jure judicial independence (JI) is the single most important predictor of de facto JI. In this paper, we describe under what conditions countries are likely to include JI in their constitutions. We describe and analyze both their original choice in this regard as well as change over time...

The participation of the social partners to the European governance, lately possessing a great „potential” in democratic terms,should stimulate definitively. The current experience demonstrates that the possibility to point out the benefits, but also the limits of such implication....

Resumen Para efectos de este trabajo, el terrorismo se entiende como un método de acción política violenta, que tiende a articularse en procesos de larga duración (campañas terroristas), con el fin de compensar asimetrías en el contexto de un conflicto. Como método, el terrorismo opera...

Why did the League of Nations ultimately fail to achieve widespread disarmament, its most fundamental goal? This article shows that the failure of the League of Nations had two important dimensions: (1) the failure to provide adequate security guarantees for its members (like an alliance); (2)...

In this paper we examine the claim that natural resources invite civil conflict, and challenge the main stylized facts in this literature. We find that the conventional measure of resource dependence is endogenous with respect to conflict, and that instrumenting for dependence implies that it is...

We use three different measures of fractionalization (with varying potential for members of one fraction to “mendaciously” pass for a member of another) to revisit the correlation between natural resources and the onset of conflict. The combination of ethnic fractionalization and resource...

Söyleşi Genel Yayın Yönetmenimiz Ali Bilge tarafından Açık Radyo’nun Açık Gazete programı için yapılmıştır. 29-30 Haziran 2010 tarihlerinde yayınlanan söyleşi metni daha sonra Timur Kuran tarafından gözden geçirilmiş ve İktisat İşletme ve Finans Dergisinde...

The purpose of this paper (which can be classified under a political essay, but just as well can be considered a trans-historical study) is the comparison between the EU, as a type of post-modern empire, original, new, modern and the classical type empires (in which we included the empires of...

We investigate the long-term effects of the important presence of Jews in Eastern Europe before the Second World War and their disappearance during the Holocaust. The Pale of Settlement, the area which Jewish residents were confined to in the Russian Empire, is used as a source of exogenous...