From https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/rest.91.2.245
Colonialism and Modern Income: Islands as Natural Experiments by James Feyrer and Bruce Sacerdote
11 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
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Was It Good Fortune to be Enslaved by the British Empire?
05 Oct 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, growth disasters, income redistribution, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, war and peace Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, Age of Enlightenment, British empire, economics of colonialism
Spanish North America
25 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Acemoglu and Robinson do their best at blaming colonialism for Africa’s woes. Made the terrible preexisting institutions worse?
08 Sep 2019 Leave a comment
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Acemoglu and Robinson on inclusive institutions and American exceptionalism
18 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
Acemoglu and Robinson on comparative economic development
17 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
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Aztecs: Arrival of Cortes and the Conquistadors
16 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires
Bruce Gilley – “The Case for Colonialism”
12 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, David Friedman, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism, political correctness
The Case for Colonialism with Dr. Bruce Gilley
11 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: Age of Discovery, age of empires, British empire, economics of colonialism
Daron Acemoglu discusses “Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty”
06 Aug 2019 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, growth disasters, growth miracles, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: age of empires, Age of exploration, economics of colonialism, imperialism
Many forget the odds against the colonies when they declared independence
04 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
Haitian Slave Revolt | 3 Minute History
03 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
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British Raj, cultural relativism and gender equality
31 Mar 2019 Leave a comment
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From Napier, William. (1851) History of General Sir Charles Napier’s Administration of Scinde, London: Chapman and Hall p. 35 at books.google.com.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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