Filippos Papasavvas
Who is most at risk of homelessness in the UK?
Bramley and Fitzpatrick (2018) investigate the impact of different factors in driving people to homelessness in the UK, and they refute...
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Filippos Papasavvas
Mar 13, 2023
The role of foreign powers in the Greek Civil War
Iatrides and Rizopoulos (2000) argue that the communists’ defeat in the Greek Civil War (1942-1949) was generally the result of the...
Nikolas Neos
Jan 22, 2023
On the birth of free trade
In his 1994 paper, Avner Greif detected systematic cultural differences between two medieval trading societies: the ‘collectivist’...
Filippos Papasavvas
Aug 31, 2022
World food regimes: a short history
Xu (2019) distinguishes between three historic world food regimes: the period when the UK was the world’s major food importer...
Jing-Yuan Deng
Apr 24, 2022
Bombed into Communists: US war in Vietnam
Dell and Querubin’s paper 'Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention' (2016) finds evidence from the Vietnam War that a strategy aimed...
Sean Hays
Mar 30, 2022
Why Oil Mattered (and Still Does)
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,...
Filippos Papasavvas
Feb 5, 2022
The Polish automotive sector – an FDI-led success story
Markiewicz (2019) investigates the Polish state’s role in nurturing the country’s automotive industry. By using protectionist,...
Nikolas Neos
Feb 5, 2022
“Institutions matter”: How Acemoglu et al. made Institutions great again
Exploiting differences in mortality rates in the European colonies, Acemoglu et al. (2001) create an innovative instrument to estimate...
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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