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The Effect of inbreeding of European Monarchs on State Performance

14 Feb 2025 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in development economics, economic history Tags: Europe

We create a novel reign-level data set for European monarchs, covering all major European states between the 10th and 18th centuries. We first document a strong positive relationship between rulers’ cognitive ability and state performance. To address endogeneity issues, we exploit the facts that (i) rulers were appointed according to hereditary succession, independent of their […]
The Effect of European Monarchs on State Performance

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29 Jan 2025 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, international economics, International law Tags: economics of borders, Europe, maps

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/3nbUtMGaftCC3m6Q/

European Policies = European Stagnation

31 Aug 2024 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic growth, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, welfare reform Tags: Europe, social insurance

I’ve written many times about how Americans are much richer than Europeans. And I’ve also written many times that the U.S. economy has been growing faster (which shouldn’t happen according to convergence theory). There’s a simple reason for America’s superior performance. The U.S. is burdened by a medium-sized welfare state and a bad tax system […]
European Policies = European Stagnation

European Territorial Disputes

29 Aug 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in defence economics, economics of education, international economic law, International law, law and economics, Public Choice Tags: economics of borders, Europe, maps

How many more Big Macs can $22 per hour Danes buy compared to $9 per hour Americans?

14 May 2020 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, poverty and inequality Tags: Europe

From https://www.justfacts.com/income_wealth_poverty.asp#international_wages

Big differences

02 Apr 2020 Leave a comment

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Europeans live is small houses

08 Mar 2019 Leave a comment

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The Rulers of Europe: Every Year

08 Jul 2018 1 Comment

by Jim Rose in economic history Tags: Europe

Map of Europe 1000 AD to present

30 Jun 2017 Leave a comment

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Median Ages in Europe: 1960-2060

26 May 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in population economics Tags: ageing society, Europe, Population demographics

Europe is greener now than it was 100 years ago

28 Apr 2017 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history, environmental economics Tags: agricultural economics, Europe

A lot of the asylum seekers seem to be trying it on

12 Apr 2017 Leave a comment

CHART | There are significant differences among EU member states in decision-making on asylum applications: https://t.co/J3VcPdKKAl pic.twitter.com/jvRpzZWc9i

— Bruegel (@Bruegel_org) April 12, 2017

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If every European succession movement succeeded

05 Mar 2017 Leave a comment

Source: http://imgur.com/f685nks

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Europe in 1226

26 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic history Tags: Europe, Middle Ages

Map of languages in Europe

16 Nov 2016 Leave a comment

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