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Fiscal crises, liberty, and representative government, 1450-1789
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In this article, Hoffman and Kathryn proposed a method to solve the problem of the "SACKS" problem by using the KATHRYN algorithm. But the method was not suitable for the case of the HOFFMAN algorithm.Abstract:
Contents HOFFMAN PHILIP T. NORBERG KATHRYN 1. SACKS DAVID HARRIS 2. JONES J.R. 3. VEENENDAAL JR. AUGUSTUS J. 4. THOMPSON I. A. A. 5. THOMPSON I. A. A. 6. HOFFMAN PHILIP T. 7. NORBERG KATHRYN HOFFMAN PHILIP T. NORBERG KATHRYNread more
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Does Oil Hinder Democracy
TL;DR: The authors examined three aspects of this "oil impedes democracy" claim and found that oil exports are strongly associated with authoritarian rule, and that other types of mineral exports have a similar antidemocratic effect, while other commodity exports do not.
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Efflorescences and Economic Growth in World History: Rethinking the "Rise of the West" and the Industrial Revolution
TL;DR: The distinctive feature of Western economies since 1800 has not been growth per se, but growth based on a specific set of elements: engines to extract motive power from fossil fuels, to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated by historians, and the marriage of empirically oriented science to a national culture of educated craftsmen and entrepreneurs broadly educated in basic principles of mechanics and experimental approaches to knowledge.
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Does Taxation Lead to Representation
TL;DR: This paper explored and tested the tax-to-representation argument using pooled time-series cross-national data from 113 countries between 1971 and 1997 and found that taxation leads to representation.
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The Struggle for Constitutional Power: Law, Politics, and Economic Development in Egypt
TL;DR: The Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court (SCC) as discussed by the authors was established by the Egyptian parliament in 1979 and has been used for the enforcement of law and democracy in the Arab Republic of Egypt.
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Progress and poverty in early modern Europe
TL;DR: In this paper, an econometric model of economic development is estimated with data from leading European countries between 1300 and 1800, which explores the impact of population, enclosure, empire, representative government, technology, and literacy on urbanization, agricultural productivity, proto-industry, and the real wage.