The last two centuries witnessed the rise and fall of empires. We construct a model which rationalises this in terms of the changing trade gains from empires. In the model, empires are arrangements that reduce trade cost between an industrial metropole and the agricultural periphery. During...

Intro -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Recent Methodological Developments in Economic History -- 3 - The Making of the Economic Historian: Eli F.Heckscher, 1897-1904* -- 4 - Eli Heckscher and the Holy Trinity -- 5 - Heckscher-Ohlin Theory and Individual Attitudes Toward Globalization -- 6 -...