This analytical review covers macroeconomic and social developments across the post-socialist economies of Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union (CEE and FSU) between 2018 and 2023. The emphasis is on historical continuity given the mix of the latest global and regional shocks. This...

France sent five thousand men to fight alongside George Washington's army in the American Revolutionary War. We show that the French combatants' exposure to the United States of America increased support for the French Revolution a decade later. French regions (départements) from which more...

This paper provides estimates of persistence in historical UK data on life expectancy applying fractional integration methods to both an annual series from 1842 to 2019 and a 5-year average from 1543 to 2019. The results indicate that the former exhibits an upward trend and is persistent but...

Afghanistan is a key state from a geopolitical and geostrategic perspective. "Central Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia" may all be reached through Afghanistan. The world powers attempted to expand their sphere of influence in Afghanistan in order to gain more sway over this region, but...

AbstractThis paper highlights the importance of endogenous changes in the foundations of legitimacy for political regimes. Specifically, it highlights the central role of legitimacy changes in the rise of constitutional monarchy in England. It first highlights the limitations of the consensus...

Because of secrecy, little is known about the political economy of central bank lending. Utilizing a novel, hand-collected historical daily dataset on loans to commercial banks, we analyze how personal connections matter for lending of last resort, highlighting the importance of governance for...

This chapter surveys the writings of medieval Jewish rabbis on usury during 1050-1565. These writings belonged to three literary genres: legal, ethical/pietistic, and Biblical commentary. After surveying the moralistic condemnations of usury by medieval rabbis, I illustrate three theoretical...

A review of the few existing literature on Philippine film animation explicates a history that can generally be situated along three interrelated streams: the form’s mutualism with comic arts, or komiks as it is known in the vernacular; its intervening relationship with political and...

This paper uses an interpretive historical approach to provide an analytical structure of the history of entrepreneurship education in the United Kingdom (UK). It begins its assessment of social imaginaries of entrepreneurship education in 1860 during the industrial revolution and the founding...

This article provides direct information on the levels and trends of Nitrogen oxides and Particulate matter in the city of Venice (Italy), enables some general considerations about air pollution extent and the effects of adopted mitigation strategies undertaken by the city Municipality. The main...