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Arruñada, Benito - 2020

The chapter analyzes the basis of the market economy in classical Rome, from the perspective of personal vs impersonal …

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Pre-Colonial Warfare and Long-Run Development in India

Dincecco, Mark - 2020

We analyze the relationship between pre-colonial warfare and long-run development patterns in India. We construct a new geocoded database of historical interstate conflicts on the Indian subcontinent, from which we compute measures of local exposure to pre-colonial warfare. We document a...

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'Whatever Is, Is Right'? Economic Institutions in Pre-Industrial Europe (Tawney Lecture 2006)

Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2021

Institutions - the structures of rules and norms governing economic transactions - are widely assigned a central role in economic development. Yet economic history is still dominated by the belief that institutions arise and survive because they are economically efficient. This paper shows that...

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The legacies of slavery in and out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 24, pp. 1-19

The slave trades out of Africa represent one of the most significant forced migration experiences in history. In this paper, I illustrate their long-term consequences on contemporaneous socio-economic outcomes, drawing from my own previous work on the topic and from an extensive review of the...

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Sailing through history : the legacy of medieval sea trade on migrant perception and extreme right voting

Bottasso, Anna; Cerruti, Gianluca; Conti, Maurizio; … - 2024

In this study we evaluate the role that Mediterranean Medieval trade with Africa and the Middle-East still plays today in Italian politics by shaping the attitudes towards migrants of individuals that live close to Medieval ports. Trade connections between Medieval ports and Muslim Africa and...

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Ora et Guberna. The Economic Impact of Benedict's Rule in Medieval England

Rossignoli, Domenico - 2020

We investigate differences in the economic performance of secular and religious local rulers in Medieval England. Exploiting the Norman conquest of England as a historical experiment, we compare economic outcomes of estates controlled by secular feudal landlords, Benedictine monasteries and...

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Fiscal Crisis and Institutional Change in the Ottoman Empire and France

Balla, Eliana; Johnson, Noel D. - 2012

Why is it that some countries adopted growth enhancing institutions earlier than others during the early-modern period? We address this question through a comparative study of the evolution of French and Ottoman fiscal institutions. During the sixteenth century both countries made extensive use...

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Economy as Empire : Dutch Disease and the Decline of Imperial Spain

Schearer, Michael - 2019

and mercantilist economic policies unique to the Spanish economy.This paper seeks to fill that gap by examining the role … of the large influx of American gold and silver into the Spanish economy and specifically its impact on Spain … the Dutch Disease amplified the structural deficiencies in the Spanish economy: first, the special privileges granted to …

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Did caselaw foster England's economic development during the industrial revolution? : data and evidence

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2022

We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...

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Consent or Coordination? Assemblies in Early Medieval Europe

Young, Andrew T. - 2022

The standard political economy narrative of representative assemblies in Western Europe is one of political bargaining …

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