New institutionalism has had considerable success during the last decade in shepherding the debate on sustained economic development. If the sociopolitical, legal and economic transformations in the Anglo-Saxon world in the last three decades prove anything, however, it is that the late Mancur...

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

The Axial Age, which lasted between 800 B. C. E. and 200 B. C. E., covers an era in which the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in various geographic areas, and all three major monotheisms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam were born between 1200 B. C....

This paper presents an economic growth model where life expectancy is determined endogenously and "collective" bargaining between the wife and the husband forms the basis of household decisions. Since child rearing is more time costly for women, they prefer fewer but more educated offspring....

This paper presents a growth model where survival is endogenously determined and the abundance of natural resources affects the returns to labor. In geographic regions where natural resources are initially more abundant and the climate is relatively more hospitable, survival odds are higher....