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Monthly Archives: December 2012
Ecology, Trade and States
A new paper by James Fenske at Oxford on the origins of institutional structures. Abstract State capacity matters for growth. I test Bates’ explanation of pre-colonial African states. He argues that trade across ecological boundaries promoted states. I find that … Continue reading