previously used to justify such taxation and, instead, emphasize that neither explicit nor implicit markets and prices for sugar … content can be expected to emerge. Hence, in the absence of any regulation, the sugar content of sugar-sweetened beverages … (SSBs) would be inefficiently high. This market failure can be corrected by a tax on the sugar content per unit of the SSB …

affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the movement for the abolition of slavery in the late 18th and early 19th … values and weak economic interest in the status quo to mobilize for change. Using data on anti-slavery petitions, membership … parliamentary speeches to show that industrialists were relatively less reliant on income from slavery and were characterized by a …

economy may be trapped in a locally stable high-corruption, high-slavery equilibrium and major changes in government policies … reducing slavery in the export industry tend to raise slavery in the remainder of the economy. It is possible that this leakage … effect dominates the reduction of slavery in the export sector. …

vibrant literature, highlighting the roles played by the Neolithic Revolution and the prehistoric "out of Africa" migration of …

The importance of the prehistoric migration of anatomically modern humans from Africa for comparative economic …

This paper studies the transmission mechanism from family culture to economic institutions, by analyzing the impact of … time. -- culture ; institutions ; historical evidence …