Do liberal ties pacify? A study of the Cod Wars
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View ArticleA short history of constitutional liberalism in America
CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY ROGER D. CONGLETON Abstract: American liberalism emerged before the most famous European liberal intellectuals put their pens to paper. It was grounded partly on...
View ArticleThe Past and the Future of Innovation: some lessons from Economic History
JOEL MOKYR EXPLORATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY Abstract: In recent years, economists have revived the specter of slow growth and secular stagnation. From the point of view of economic history, what should...
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JANE HUMPHRIES, BENJAMIN SCHNEIDER THE ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW Abstract: The prevailing explanation for why the industrial revolution occurred first in Britain during the last quarter of the eighteenth...
View ArticleThe Birth of Pork: Local Appropriations in America’s First Century
SANFORD C. GORDON and HANNAH K. SIMPSON AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Volume 112, Issue 3 Abstract: After describing a newly assembled dataset consisting of almost 9,000 local appropriations made...
View ArticleArbitration in classical Athens
BRYAN C. MCCANNON CONSTITUTIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Abstract: The Classical Athenians developed two formal arbitration procedures. They assigned low stakes disputes to a panel of arbitrators, while high...
View ArticleThe age of mass migration in Latin America
BLANCA SÁNCHEZ‐ALONSO THE ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW Abstract: The experiences of Latin American countries are not fully incorporated into current debates concerning the age of mass migration, even though...
View ArticleLudwig von Mises on war and the economy
CHRISTOPHER J. COYNE THE REVIEW OF AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS Abstract: In 1919, in the wake of the Central Power’s defeat in World War I, Ludwig von Mises published his second book, Nation, State, and...
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