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I analyze structure and function in the network design of historical regimes of China and Western Europe to build a theory for the development of societies and states from endogenous mechanisms of social change. I show how their respective network structures evolved independently but share a...
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This paper presents some thoughts on what we can learn from investigating European and East Asian monetary policies and monetary cooperation in historical comparative perspective. This fresh approach to the ongoing global and regional crises highlights the necessity to view problems of national...
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The article draws on the concepts of cultural and political embeddedness to analyse the local embeddedness of a global transnational engineering firm in transforming economies. It compares the process of the negotiations for and the acquisitions of assets undertaken by ABB in Wroclaw, Poland and...
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Networks of Church and State that originated in premodern times played an important role as conduits for the transmission of cultural values that have endured into the present and set the economic history of China apart from that of Europe. The imprints of those networks, which preceded the...
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The study examines whether adverse working conditions for immigrants in Greece bear an association with deteriorated …
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.2 million Greek Orthodox were forcibly resettled from Turkey to Greece, increasing the Greek population by more than 20% within … a few months. We build a novel geocoded dataset locating settlements of refugees across the universe of more than four … thousand Greek municipalities that existed in Greece in 1920. Exploiting the spatial variation in the resettlement location, we …
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under the protection of political parties. The reform agenda of the Mitsotakis government in Greece (1990-1993) illustrates …
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design of economic policy. As evidence from Greece shows, patrons in government are better off avoiding reforms that deprive …
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