Theoretical work on taxation and state-building borrows heavily from early modern
European experience. While a number of European states increased centralized tax …

Аннотация Книга Дарона Аджемоглу и Джеймса Робинсона «Почему одни страны
богатые, а другие бедные»–один из главных политэкономических бестселлеров …

Two distinctive regimes are distinguished in Spain over half a millennium. The first one
(1270s–1590s) corresponds to a high land–labour ratio frontier economy, which is pastoral …

The purpose of the article is to present the statistical reconstruction of a series of per capita
output in central–northern Italy between 1300 and 1913. The various phases of both the …

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration
of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western …

We construct the first time-series for Portugal's per capita GDP for 1527–1850, drawing on a
new database. Starting in the early 1630s there was a highly persistent upward trend which …

Over the early modern period and beyond, massive amounts of silver and gold were found
and mined in the Americas. This chapter reviews the consequences for the European …

The early modern era witnessed the formation across Europe of centralized states that
captured increasing shares of resources as taxes. These states not only enjoyed greater …

Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions
and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an …

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 …