This paper by Leonor F. Costa, António Henriques and yours truly, recently published in the European Review of Economic History (and previously referred to here), was announced at the European Hist…| Economic Growth in History
How did local legal institutions power the British Industrial Revolution? In a new working paper, available here in open access, Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, Jonathan Chapman and I show that Justices of the Peace (JPs) — magistrates acting locally — were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth. The paper is also available as a … Continue reading Justices of the Peace: Legal Foundations of the Industrial Revolution→| Economic Growth in History
I’ve been too busy to even post new papers here as they come out or get published, but will now share two recent Lewis Lab working paper releases for anyone interested: State capacity and exe…| Economic Growth in History
Why China did not industrialise before Western Europe may be a tantalising and irresistible subject, but frankly it’s a parlour game. What remains underexplored, however, is the more tractabl…| pseudoerasmus
