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The Long economic and political shadow of history 1: A global view
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The Long economic and political shadow of history 1: A global view

  • Stelios Michalopoulos
  • Elias Papaioannou
23 Jan 2017
  • Series Introduction: Historical legacies and contemporary development
  • Volume I Introduction: A global view
  • On the spatial distribution of development. The roles of nature and history
  • Deep roots of comparative development
  • Barriers to the spread of prosperity
  • Environmental economic history
  • The persistence of technological creativity and the Great Enrichment: Reflections on the “Rise of Europe” .
  • The economic impact of colonialism
  • Legal origins
  • The European origins of economic development
  • On the long-run effects of colonial legacies. Evidence from small islands
  • Maritime technology, trade, and economic development. evidence from the first era of trade globalisation
Forced displacement, then and now
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Forced displacement, then and now

8 Apr 2022
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Historical gender discrimination does not explain comparative Western European development

  • Nuno Palma
  • Jaime Brown Reis
  • Lisbeth Rodrigues
27 Feb 2022
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  • Economic history
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  • Gender
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  • Gender discrimination
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  • European marriage pattern
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  • Portugal
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  • Western europe
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  • Little divergence
The Economics of the Second World War: Seventy-Five Years On
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The Economics of the Second World War: Seventy-Five Years On

  • Stephen Broadberry
  • Mark Harrison
4 May 2020
  • Introduction: The Economics of the Second World War: Seventy-Five Years On
  • Roots of war: Hitler’s rise to power
  • The German economy from peace to war: The Blitzkrieg economy revisited
  • The Soviet economy and war preparations
  • Lessons learned? British economic management and performance during the World Wars
  • How the war was won
  • Never alone, and always strong: the British war economy in 1940 and after
  • The Second World War in America: Spending, deficits, multipliers, and sacrifices
  • Economic warfare: Insights from Mançur Olson
  • Supplier networks as a key to wartime production in Japan
  • Exploitation and destruction in Nazi-occupied Europe
  • The economics of neutrality in the Second World War
  • Economists at war
  • Inequality: Total war as a great leveller
  • Recovery and reconstruction in Europe after the war
  • How the war shaped political and social trust in the long run
  • The famines of the Second World War

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Measuring ancient inequality

  • Peter Lindert
  • Branko Milanovic
  • Jeffrey G. Williamson

5 Dec 2007
  • Development
  • Economic history
  • Development
  • Inequality
  • pre-industrial societies
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Cultural assimilation, cultural diffusion and the origin of the wealth of nations

  • Quamrul Ashraf
  • Oded Galor

13 Sep 2007
  • Economic history
  • Productivity and Innovation
  • Wealth
  • Cultural assimilation
  • Cultural diffusion
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Weighting votes in the Council: towards a ‘Warsaw compromise’?

  • Daniel Gros
  • Sebastian Kurpas
  • Mika Widgren

20 Jun 2007
  • Economic history
  • EU institutions
VoxEU Column

Inequality and institutions in 20th century America

  • Frank Levy
  • Peter Temin

15 Jun 2007
  • Economic history
  • Poverty and Income Inequality
  • Labour markets
  • Labour market policy
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