The marketing discipline today constitutes a great paradox. The nation stands deeply
troubled. It seeks solutions to grave problems both within and without its own society …

We study whether a positive historical shock can generate long-term persistence in
development. We show that Italian cities that achieved self-government in the Middle Ages …

Over the last two centuries, the impact of the Human System has grown dramatically,
becoming strongly dominant within the Earth System in many different ways. Consumption …

This paper attempts to go beyond what the author sees as an unproductive confrontation
between the proponents and the opponents of industrial policy and to take the debate on …

This paper uses a new dataset to study the relationship between economic output and
sovereign default for the period 1820–2004. We find a negative but surprisingly weak …

While new empirical findings and theoretical frameworks provide insight into the
interrelations between socioeconomic development, gender equity, and low fertility, puzzling …

This paper presents series on top shares of income and wealth in Spain using personal
income and wealth tax return statistics. Top income shares are highest in the 1930s, fall …

Unlike many other social sciences, international relations (IR) spend relatively little time
assessing the impact of the nineteenth century on its principal subject matter. As a result, the …

This article reassesses the importance of colonial status to investors before 1914 by means
of multivariable regression analysis of the data available to contemporaries. We show that …

Najpierw o książce. Autor opisuje wydarzenia we współczesnym świe cie gospodarki i
polityki na tle roz ległej historii ludzkości iw szerokiej perspektywie geograficznej. Dwie idee …