Forthcoming book review in the JEL: 'The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People by Paul Seabright' by Sascha O. Becker. aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

And the winner of the 2024 Lee J. Alston Prize for the Best Article in the JHPE from the Previous Year (2023, Volume 3) is Hoyt Bleakley and Paul W. Rhode, 'De Tocqueville, Population Movements, and Revealed Institutional Preferences.' nowpublishers.com/article/Detail…

Very cool paper tracking geopolitical fragmentation and its effects by Jesus Fernanzdez-Villverde, Tomohide Mineyama and Dongho Song sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/Fragm…

Looking forward to Wolfgang Keller's seminar on the Fall of the Ming tomorrow at GMU publicchoice.gmu.edu/events/15498

My forthcoming book 'Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West' just got a new endorsement from one of my favorite economic historians: Greg Clark! Gregory Clark
Book website at publisher: t.ly/C3Xn5

✍🏻 «States are most effective when they are complemented by civil society [...] Negative spirals are also possible: declining state effectiveness reduces trust in government and in society more generally» Mark Koyama

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From the Archives: Is there a relationship between health and freedom? Can we strengthen state capacity without infringing on civil liberties?
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Preparing my Byzantium & Eastern Europe course including a reading by Mark Koyama and his coauthor on feudal political economies. Map: Byzantine Empire in 1025--Macedonian dynasty. Byzantium Magnum, Μέγα Βυζάντιο. Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
Osteuropa-Institut Department of Economics at OEI

Ep. 210: Mark Koyama on What Makes Some Nations Richer Than Others - Macro Hive macrohive.com/hive-podcasts/…

Ralf Meisenzahl visiting George Mason University George Mason Economics to talk about the economic history of research universities #econtwitter #econhist

markkoyama.com Brand new, from Mark Koyama — I thought “How the World Became Rich” was the most current book on economic history, and the blog is good too. Will continue in yet another quote tweet, after this:

Happy birthday to Albert Hirschman, who would be 109 today.

Hirschman—anti-fascist, resistance hero, later a development economist—may be the most interesting person to ever take up the profession.

🧵 and blog post on his remarkable life and work.

Freedoms Delayed markkoyama.com/p/freedoms-del…

I’ve read the book recently and I strongly recommend it.