Before political and jural integration, multiple, non-integrated jural authorities contended with each other for influence and authority. It was a world of plural jural superiorities, or jural pluralism. In Hume’s History of England, the main characters in the story of jural pluralism and the...

Magna Carta, a pivotal moment in the emergence of constitutional government, institutionalised constraints on royal power. We depict it as an optimal agreement between two coalitions capable of violence: the king's loyal coalition of barons and the rebel barons. This type of agreement is more...

Buchanan and Wagner (1977) pointed to an asymmetry in the political rewards of deficits and surpluses with the former being preferable to the latter. We test this claim by relying on the historical reputation surveys of American presidents. Historical reputations have long been something...

Buchanan and Wagner (1977) pointed to an asymmetry in the political rewards of deficits and surpluses with the former being preferable to the latter. We test this claim by relying on the historical reputation surveys of American presidents. Historical reputations have long been something...

What led to the fall of the Templars? Though the vast historiographical literature suggests that King Philip IV’s financial situation was the main reason for the downfall of the Templars, we contend that it had little to do with Philip IV per se. Rather the Templars were destroyed mostly due...