Herding, Warfare, and a Culture of Honor: Global Evidence
Benjamin Enke of Harvard University and his co-authors examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts ...
Benjamin Enke of Harvard University and his co-authors examine the importance of norms of revenge and punishment in perpetuating global conflicts ...
Is art a haven in times of political or financial crisis? To answer this question, Yuexin Li of Renmin University of ...
How do external threats on state sovereignty benefit local development? Christopher Paik of ...
Join this Quantitative History Webinar and explore Joerg Baten’s latest use of bioarchaeological sources to study very long-run economic history ...
How should we think about long-term economic progress? Something dramatic changed in Europe in the centuries before the Industrial Revolution ...
The political territory of the Western Zhou dynasty consisted of two major parts: the royal domain (wangji) and the feudal states ...
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Nicolas Tackett of the University of California, Berkeley will describe important ...
Can ideas mobilize people into collective action? Ying Bai of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his co-authors investigate this question by ...
In this Quantitative History Lecture, Debin Ma of the University of Oxford will present his paper which revisits the ...
Where do gender norms that favour men come from? While the status of women in India has its origins in part in son preference ...
Measuring the living standards of pre-modern societies is a crucial subject in economic history ...
During this Quantitative History Webinar, Wolfgang Keller of the University of Colorado Boulder will present his latest research with his co-author Carol H. Shiue studying the ...
Most conventional theories of state origin regard economic development as a catalyst for state formation ...
What determines the use of labor coercion? Mark Hup of Peking University studies the impact of trade on corvée labor – the payment of taxation in labor – in colonial Indonesia ...
Social conflict theory holds that democratization is most likely when an incumbent rural elite is challenged by a rising urban bourgeoisie ...
Since the pioneering research of Japanese scholars in the 1920s the invention of paper currency in China in the eleventh century has long been regarded as a signal feature of China’s “medieval economic revolution,” ...
King Chulalongkorn adopted a Western land code in 1901 as a part of a defensive strategy against Western colonial ambitions in Siam ...
Over the past several decades governments across the world have begun targeting price stability in financial markets ...
Kevin O’Rourke of NYU Abu Dhabi and team use a new dataset on the universe of Canadian imports and tariffs between 1924 and 1936 ...
Archaeological discoveries since 1921 have established that complex societies, as represented by densely-populated walled cities ...
Cong Liu of Jinan University and her co-authors study foreign firms’ responses to boycotts ...
Scholars have long debated whether the Chinese economy has been in a secular decline since the nineteenth century ...
In unified growth models, a key to achieving sustained economic growth is the evolving nexus between population dynamics and technological change ...
The Silk Road is not merely a geographical or sociohistorical route but also, to a considerable extent, a catalyst for historical ups and downs ...
