economic history
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The Economic History of the American Empire
Tracing the United States from a rural republic in 1790 to the largest economy, the author argues that American power rests on commodity extraction, construction and manufacturing built up through…
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The ubiquity of the rentier state
Disputing an article that says the Mughals made India rich, the author argues that Maddison’s data may be wrong and the Mughal state was highly extractive, since most pre-modern societies…
