v. 1. General introduction. Agriculture -- v. 2. Mining, trade and industry -- v. 3. The building blocks of development : governance, transport and communciations, and human and financial capital. Index.

1. Agricultural transformation, land ownership, and markets in inland Spain : the case of southern Navarre, 1600-1935 / Jose Miguel Lana-Berasain -- 2. Are institutions the whole story? frontier expansion, land quality and ownership rights in the River Plate, 1850-1920 / Henry Willebald -- 3....

1. Introduction : research methods for large databases / Mark Casson and Nigar Hashimzade -- 2. Long-run price dynamics : the measurement of substitutability between commodities / Mark Casson, Nigar Hashimzade and Catherine Casson -- 3. The quantity theory of money in historical perspective /...

1. The ABCs of a comparative economic history of organized crime : a national and transnational approach -- 2. Italian mafias -- 3. Russian mafias --4. Vignette : the Albanian mafia -- 5. US mafia -- 6. The Mexican drug cartels -- 7. Vignette : organized crime in Canada -- 8. The Colombian drug...

1. The European economy in the late eighteenth century -- 2. Population growth and migration -- 3. Technological change -- 4. The French revolution and the continental system -- 5. The economic development of France 1815-70 -- 6. The economic development of Germany 1815-70 -- 7. The economic...

List of figures, List of tables, -- Preface, Table of abbreviations. 1. Evolution of monetary arrangements 2. New monetary economics and commodity bundles:a critique of the Black-Fama-Hall system. 3. A measure of value independent of commodities: developing new monetary economics using the...