In this paper we provide a detailed explanation of the methodology underlying the construction of a new labour and capital stock dataset for Italy since 1861. The existing seminal paper (Rossi, Sorgato and Toniolo 1993) only covered the period 1911-1990 for labour and 1890-1990 for capital;...

This article is the introductory chapter to a festschrift in honour of Geoff Hodgson. In work spanning four decades, Geoff Hodgson has made many path-breaking contributions to institutional economics, evolutionary economics, economic methodology, the history of economic thought and social theory...

Spanish Abstract: Esta reflexión fue escrita para cuestionar el fallo de la Sala Constitucional de Costa Rica sobre la constitucionalidad de un proyecto de ley denominado Ley de Fortalecimiento de las Finanzas Públicas.1 El fallo se fundamentó en algunos estudios económicos del Ministerio de...

Comparative analysis of the markets for land, labor, and capital in north-central Italy and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period reveals that urbanization in itself was not the crucial variable in the quality and effect of developing factor markets. More...