We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy
during the long nineteenth century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. States …

The essay considers the claim that slavery played a leading role in the acceleration of US
economic growth in the nineteenth century. Although popular among pro-slavery apologists …

Este es un nuevo relato definitivo de la evolución económica de Gran Bretaña desde un
remanso de Europa en 1270 hasta el centro de la economía global en 1870. Un equipo de …

Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while
postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus …

Today's world textile and garment trade is valued at a staggering $425 billion. We are told
that under the pressure of increasing globalisation, it is India and China that are the new …

Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but it has left sociology
comparatively unscathed. Does this mean that postcolonial theory is not relevant to …

This paper uses a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of temporary trade
protection on long-term economic development. I find that regions in the French Empire …

The new meta‐narrative of the industrial revolution contends that B ritain was a high wage
economy and that this itself caused industrialization. Contemporary inventions, although …

Westerners on both the left and right overwhelmingly conflate globalisation with
Westernisation and presume that the global economy is a pure Western-creation. Taking on …

Estimates of Indian GDP are constructed from the output side for 1600–1871, and combined
with population data. Indian per capita GDP declined steadily during the seventeenth and …