Major technological innovations are not sufficient to enable socio-economic progress
without governments creating the institutional framework–in particular via education, welfare …

We revisit Max Weber's hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development.
We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber's Protestant Ethic and …

Während der fast 50 Jahre zwischen Reichsproklamation und Novemberrevolution
wandelte sich Deutschland vom rückständigen Agrarstaat zum wirtschaftlich modernen …

We present a new estimate of Anglo-German manufacturing productivity levels for 1935/36.
It is based on archival data on German manufacturing and published British census data …

Throughout the period 1871–1938, the average British worker was better off than the
average German worker, but there were significant differences between major sectors. For …

This paper presents the first attempt to estimate the GDP time series for inter-war Lithuania,
tracking the country's annual performance from 1919 until its incorporation into the USSR in …

Czechoslovak industrial labour productivity fluctuated around two-thirds of the UK level
under the private sector regime between the wars. Under the central planning regime of the …

De la Révolution française à la Seconde Guerre mondiale, les politiques d'industrialisation
connaissent trois vagues successives?: le proto-nationalisme économique (1789-1860), le …

The production of habutae, a simple silk fabric, expanded rapidly between 1890 and 1918 in
Japan's Fukui Prefecture, with large exports to Europe and the United States. The production …

This article anatomizes the 'productivity race'between N azi G ermany and the US over the
period from the G reat D epression to the S econd W orld W ar in the metalworking industry …