"The Bones of the Kingdom" Part 2 The real story why medieval Europe was covered in castles

"The Bones of the Kingdom" Part 2
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"The Bones of the Kingdom" (Part 1) Baronial castles in medieval Europe

New substack: part one of the political economy of European castles www.markkoyama.com/publish/post...

Chinese world culltural trend

How can we study human development over two thousand years?

For most periods and regions, we lack reliable data on income, health, or education. Before 1800, and outside Europe, historical records are extremely fragmentary.

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Jack Goldstone: Is the Great Divergence Debate really over? A Guest Post

Guest post by Jack Goldstone!! open.substack.com/pub/markkoya...

Did the Enlightenment Give Rise to Racism? Slate chief political correspondent Jamelle Bouie set off a heated online debate with a series of tweets[1] claiming “the concept of race was birthed by the Enlightenment,”[2] which then sparked a ful...

A great piece from @markkoyama.bsky.social (2018) on the perceived direct connections of modern racism to Enlightenment thought that paints a vivid picture and places it within the romanticist, nationalist tradition. While charting its history from antiquity. www.liberalcurrents.com/did-the-enli...

The Political Power of Civil Society Or why protests alone usually don't bring down autocratic regimes

The Political Power of Civil Society
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The Laissez-Faire Experiment by W. Walker Hanlon A longer version of my book review

The Laissez-Faire Experiment by W. Walker Hanlon
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The August 2025 issue of the Journal of the European Economic Association is now published (academic.oup.com/jeea/issue/2...). It consists of 10 fantastic papers from a wide range of fields of economics. @jeeanews.bsky.social

a very interesting piece on the Ukrainian Famine

Thoughts on the Mirror and the Light and the Tudor Revolution in Government I've just finished watching the second season of Wolf Hall, The Mirror and the Light, adapted from Hillary Mantel's 2020 novel of the same name.

New Substack post on Thomas Cromwell's portrayal in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light open.substack.com/pub/markkoya...

Handbook of New Institutional Economics This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.

Very happy to see our chapter (with Desiree Desierto) on Institutional Change in updated edition of the Handbook of New Institutional Economics link.springer.com/referencewor... (open access).

The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru Our project on the effects of forced labor in colonial Peru began years ago, when I, Leticia, was still a graduate student.

The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru
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Handbook of New Institutional Economics This Open Access Handbook provides a timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in new institutional economics.

This looks great link.springer.com/referencewor...

New Broadstreet post up!

Highlighting some great work rethinking common assumptions about African borders!

@ricarthuguet.bsky.social @jackpaine.bsky.social and Christy Qiu

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African Borders: Neither Random Nor Decided at the Berlin Conference By Jack Paine (Emory University), Xiaoyan Qiu (Washington University in St. Louis) and Joan Ricart-Huguet (Loyola University Maryland

African Borders: Neither Random Nor Decided at the Berlin Conference
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New Broadstreet post is up! By @markkoyama.bsky.social

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🚨 Announcement - Hajnal Lecture 2025 🚨

"The Origins of Constitutional Government"
by @markkoyama.bsky.social

May 7, 2025 from 4 to 5:30 pm
Arthur Lewis Lab, University of Manchester

And no need to register to come to the lecture!

Almost too good to be true: a wide-ranging review in JEL (by its former editor @durlauf.bsky.social) of the two great recent books in econ history: @delong.social 's "Slouching" and @markkoyama.bsky.social and @jaredcrubin.com 's "How the World Became Rich". Dig in!

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How the World Became Rich by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin and Slouching Towards Utopia by J. Bradford DeLong: A Review Essay (March 2025) - This essay reviews two recent books on economic growth: Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin's How the World Became Rich and J. Bradford DeLong's Slouching Towards Utopia. Both books offer rich ...

A thoughtful and insightful review of @durlauf.bsky.social How the World Became Rich by @markkoyama.bsky.social .social and @jaredcrubin.com and Slouching Towards Utopia by @delong.social www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

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