"How did free trade emerge in early modern times? How did the Mediterranean as a specific region - with its own historical characteristics - produce a culture in which the free port appeared? What was the relation between the type of free trade created in early modern Italy and the development...

Klappentext: "Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes how humans thought about, harnessed, stored, and exploited stocks and flows of...

"This edited volume explores the interplay between political, economic, and financial development in twentieth-century European authoritarian regimes. The book features case studies that explore the impact of domestic and international finance on the rise, stabilization, and decline of various...

Im Anthropozän machen Menschen nicht nur Geschichte - sondern auch Erdgeschichte. Denn unser heutiger Konsum wird die ferne Zukunft prägen. Die Enkel unserer Enkel werden mit den Resten der Plastikflaschen, Asphaltbeläge, Covid-Masken und Hühnerknochen leben. Gleichzeitig verbrauchen wir...

International climate negotiations have been hamstrung by a dispute over whether a handful of developed countries have “historical responsibility” for climate change. The thesis rests on the presumed fact that a small number of early-industrializing nations (the “accused” countries)...

This article explores religion’s contribution to the cultural capital of the modern market economy. Networks of Church and State that originated in premodern times played an important role as conduits for the transmission of cultural values that have endured into the present and set the...

The past Greek crisis experience is more or less terra incognita. In all historical empirical studies Greece is systematically neglected or included only sporadically in their cross-country samples. In the national literature too there is little on this topic. In this paper we focus on the Greek...

The fiscal theory states that inflation adjusts so that the real value of government debt equals the present value of real primary surpluses. Monetary policy remains important. The central bank can set an interest rate target, which determines the path of expected inflation, while news about the...

Federal prohibition was one of the most ambitious policy interventions in US history. However, the removal of restrictions on alcohol after 1933 was not uniform. Using a new balanced panel on annual deaths, we find that city-level repeal is associated with a 14.7% decrease in homicide...