Nikolas Neos
On the birth of free trade
In his 1994 paper, Avner Greif detected systematic cultural differences between two medieval trading societies: the ‘collectivist’...
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Filippos Papasavvas
Mar 7, 2022
On the opposing nationalisms of Russia and Ukraine
Harris (2020) investigates the differing nationalist ideologies developed in Russia and Ukraine after the dissolution of the Soviet...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
On the relationship of consumerism and body fetishism
Baudrillard (1998), in the eighth chapter of his book ‘The Consumer Society’ explores the way in which body fetishism, particularly of...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
A very short history of the evolution of Greek folk music
The Zaimakis (2010) paper argues that the Greek Left’s criticisms of rebetiko music about its fatalism and Eastern roots contributed to...
Swaantje Marten
Feb 5, 2022
Will Covid-19 renew or diminish public trust in science?
Eichengreen et al. (2020) are trying to predict whether the current pandemic will enhance people’s trust in science in the long-run by...
Nikolas Neos
Feb 5, 2022
Deciphering the Process of Economic Change
North (2003) attempted to solve the puzzle of economic change. According to North, the structure we impose on our lives to reduce...
Nikolas Neos
Feb 5, 2022
The traces of historical processes in contemporary economic outcomes (reasons to study econ history)
Working on data on the institutions in the antiquity, Roland(2018) distinguishes them into two institutional clusters resulting in either...
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