Frederiksen et al (1994) investigated whether, in Pakistan, there was a tradeoff between government spending on defense and other...

Bramley and Fitzpatrick (2018) investigate the impact of different factors in driving people to homelessness in the UK, and they refute...

Iatrides and Rizopoulos (2000) argue that the communists’ defeat in the Greek Civil War (1942-1949) was generally the result of the...

In his 1994 paper, Avner Greif detected systematic cultural differences between two medieval trading societies: the ‘collectivist’...

Xu (2019) distinguishes between three historic world food regimes: the period when the UK was the world’s major food importer...

Dell and Querubin’s paper 'Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention' (2016) finds evidence from the Vietnam War that a strategy aimed...

Yergin’s The Prize provides a sweeping account of the history of oil, using it as a lens to view the most impactful economic, political,...

Markiewicz (2019) investigates the Polish state’s role in nurturing the country’s automotive industry. By using protectionist,...

Exploiting differences in mortality rates in the European colonies, Acemoglu et al. (2001) create an innovative instrument to estimate...

North (2003) attempted to solve the puzzle of economic change. According to North, the structure we impose on our lives to reduce...