This paper studies the equilibrium determination of the number of countries in different political
regimes, and in different economic environments, with more or less economic integration. …

… In this sense a nation does not need to be an independent state. If it is, … "nation-states"—another
term with multiple meanings. We are not interested in "nations" as distinct from "nation-…

… Nations also interact with other nations to maximize the wealth of their ruling groups. … and
population size of nations. In particular, we show that the size and wealth of nations depend on …

… Our choice rule is to order the nations by size, remove a consecutive sequence of n nations,
calculate the combined population of the 15 largest nations remaining, and compare it with …

… size of nations as we know them today, but which could be achieved within the limits of the
sizes of nations, … what were the economic advantages of a nation with a population, let us say, …

… definition of country size available for economists as “the relevance of the nation in economic
… Second, large and small size both entail advantages and difficulties, with small nations …

A total of 236 social, economic, political, and other characteristics were collected for 1955
for all eighty-two then-independent nations of more than 800,000 population. These 236 …

BY a small nation I mean an independent sovereign state, with a population of ten million or
less. Setting the dividing line at ten million is a rough decision, made with an eye to the …

National Borders and the Size of Nations | The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy |
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AVERAGE INCOMES in the world's richest countries are more than ten times as high as in
the world's poorest countries. It is apparent to anyone who travels the world that these large …