Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction: “King Coal” and modern mining history -- Politics of coal -- The European energy system in an age of globalisation -- Between political continuity and new deal: The energy sector in France in the 1960s -- The French oil industry under the...

We create a novel reign-level dataset 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-level outcomes. To address endogeneity issues, we exploit the facts...

""Capital is moved to where low-wage labour is available, and migrants move - often in large numbers - to where investments and/or wealth accumulated due to specific historic factors create a demand for labour". This volume explores this idea and contributes to the fields of global labour,...