beneficial in early stages of development, generated in later stages a hurdle for human capital accumulation and economic growth … from an agrarian to an industrial economy, generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Land abundance, which was … of industrialization affected the transition to modern growth and has brought about changes in the ranking of countries …

the process of development. A simple general equilibrium model of rent-seeking political elites with two productive …

-faring and airborne transportation technologies, to examine its impact on the course of economic development across the globe … effect on the process of development and contributed to the contemporary variation in the standard of living across countries. …

magnitude of episodes of mass killing and the levels of development and democracy across countries and over time. Mass killings …

-imperial collapse and entering a period of relative political stability and economic growth, as did Latin America a century and a half …

or internal to the state? When are large states associated with higher income levels and growth rates than small states …? What relations should we expect between resource rents, civil wars and economic development? The paper is organized into …

distributed unequally and institutions do not ensure political commitments. The results imply that for any level of development … resources for which democracy is infeasible in equilibrium irrespective of the level of development. The model also delivers …

widespread social unrest and revolution. Political transition, rather than redistribution under existing political institutions …