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Working Papers

2019

1. Pandemics, Places, and Populations: Evidence from the Black Death
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers View citations (1)
   Also in CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo Group Munich (2019) View citations (1)
   Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy

2018

2. Autocratic Rule and Social Capital: Evidence from Imperial China
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

2017

3. Economic shocks, inter-ethnic complementarities and the persecution of minorities: Evidence from the Black Death
   Working Papers, Economic History Society
4. Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence: State Building in China and Japan After 1850
   Discussion paper series, Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2018)
5. Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)
   Also in Working Papers, The George Washington University, Institute for International Economic Policy (2017) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Growth (2019)

2016

6. Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, Rule of Law, and the persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Law and Economics (2018)

2015

7. The Literary Inquisition: The Persecution of Intellectuals and Human Capital Accumulation in China
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

2014

8. Unified China and Divided Europe
   CEI Working Paper Series, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University View citations (12)
   Also in Working Papers, Economic History Society (2014)
   See also Journal Article in International Economic Review (2018)
9. Unified China; Divided Europe
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (11)

2013

10. From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (6)
11. Resisting Education
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)

2012

12. Legal Centralization and the Birth of the Secular State
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Comparative Economics (2013)
13. Standardizing the fiscal state: cabal tax farming as an Intermediate Institution in early-modern England and France
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (4)
14. The Law and Economics of Private Prosecutions in Industrial Revolution England
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (1)

2011

15. Development and Religious Polarization: The Emergence of Reform and Ultra-Orthodox Judaism
    Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (9)
    Also in Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, University of York View citations (6)
16. Prosecution Associations in Industrial Revolution England: Private Providers of Public Goods?
    Centre for Historical Economics and Related Research at York (CHERRY) Discussion Papers, CHERRY, c/o Department of Economics, University of York View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in The Journal of Legal Studies (2012)
17. Taxes, lawyers, and the decline of witch trials in France
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations (12)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Law and Economics (2014)

2009

18. The Price of Time and Labour Supply: From the Black Death to the Industrious Revolution
    Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics View citations (1)

2008

19. Evading the 'Taint of Usury' Complex Contracts and Segmented Capital Markets
    Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics

Journal Articles

2019

1. Negative shocks and mass persecutions: evidence from the Black Death
   Journal of Economic Growth, 2019, 24, (4), 345-395
   See also Working Paper (2017)
2. Nicholas Crafts, Forging ahead, falling behind and fighting back: British economic growth from the industrial revolution to the financial crisis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x + 152. 1 fig. 41 tabs. ISBN 9781108438162 Pbk. £17.99)
   Economic History Review, 2019, 72, (2), 774-775
3. Peter T. Leeson, WTF?!: An economic tour of the weird
   The Review of Austrian Economics, 2019, 32, (1), 81-84

2018

4. Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. By Daniel Ziblatt. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. 448. $36.69, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78, (3), 940-942
5. Geopolitics and Asia’s little divergence: State building in China and Japan after 1850
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018, 155, (C), 178-204
   See also Working Paper (2017)
6. Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, the Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire
   Journal of Law and Economics, 2018, 61, (2), 253 - 277 View citations (3)
   See also Working Paper (2016)
7. UNIFIED CHINA AND DIVIDED EUROPE
   International Economic Review, 2018, 59, (1), 285-327 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper (2014)

2017

8. Education, identity, and community: lessons from Jewish emancipation
   Public Choice, 2017, 171, (1), 119-143 View citations (1)
9. Jared Rubin: Rulers, religion, and riches: Why the West got rich and the Middle East did not?
   Public Choice, 2017, 172, (3), 549-552
10. Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800
    Economic Journal, 2017, 127, (602), 924-958 View citations (7)
11. Jewish communities and city growth in preindustrial Europe
    Journal of Development Economics, 2017, 127, (C), 339-354 View citations (9)
12. Roderick Floud, Santhi Hejeebu, and David Mitch, eds., Humanism challenges materialism in economics and economic history ( Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 276. 8 figs. ISBN 9780226419588 Hbk. $65/£49)
    Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (3), 1045-1046
13. States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints
    Explorations in Economic History, 2017, 64, (C), 1-20 View citations (14)
14. Walter Scheidel: The great leveler: violence and the history of inequality from the stone age to the twenty-first century
    Public Choice, 2017, 172, (3), 545-548

2016

15. Jewish emancipation and schism: Economic development and religious change
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2016, 44, (3), 562-584 View citations (15)
16. Review of Ultra Society: how 10,000 years of war made humans the greatest cooperators on earth, Beresta Books, LCC, Connecticut, 2016 by Peter Turchin
    Journal of Bioeconomics, 2016, 18, (3), 239-242
17. The long transition from a natural state to a liberal economic order
    International Review of Law and Economics, 2016, 47, (S), 29-39 View citations (1)

2015

18. Jacob T. Levy: Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom
    Public Choice, 2015, 163, (3), 409-412
19. Monetary stability and the rule of law
    Journal of Financial Stability, 2015, 17, (C), 46-58 View citations (3)
20. The History Manifesto. By Jo Guldi and David Armitage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. x, 165. $45.00, hardcover; $19.99, paper
    The Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75, (2), 584-587
21. The Rise of Market Society in England 1066–1800. By Christine Eisenberg. New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2013. Pp. 176. $70.00, hardcover
    The Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75, (3), 931-933

2014

22. Tax farming and the origins of state capacity in England and France
    Explorations in Economic History, 2014, 51, (C), 1-20 View citations (22)
23. Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France
    Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57, (1), 77 - 112 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
24. The law & economics of private prosecutions in industrial revolution England
    Public Choice, 2014, 159, (1), 277-298 View citations (5)

2013

25. Legal centralization and the birth of the secular state
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2013, 41, (4), 959-978 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper (2012)
26. Preindustrial Cliometrics
    Economic Affairs, 2013, 33, (2), 268-278
27. Timur Kuran: The long divergence: how Islamic law held back the Middle East
    Public Choice, 2013, 154, (3), 341-343

2012

28. Prosecution Associations in Industrial Revolution England: Private Providers of Public Goods?
    The Journal of Legal Studies, 2012, 41, (1), 95 - 130 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper (2011)
29. The transformation of labor supply in the pre-industrial world
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2012, 81, (2), 505-523 View citations (5)

2010

30. Evading the 'Taint of Usury': The usury prohibition as a barrier to entry
    Explorations in Economic History, 2010, 47, (4), 420-442 View citations (19)
31. The political economy of expulsion: the regulation of Jewish moneylending in medieval England
    Constitutional Political Economy, 2010, 21, (4), 374-406 View citations (8)

2009

32. Playing Like the Home Team: An Economic Investigation into Home Advantage in Football
    International Journal of Sport Finance, 2009, 4, (1), 16-41 View citations (1)

Books

2019

1. Persecution and Toleration
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2019)