• Introduction

1. Gerard Roland, Comparative Economics in Historical Perspective. Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 60, No 4, 2018.

2. Armin Falk and others, Global Evidence On Economic Preferences, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 133, Issue 4, 2018.

3. Yuriy Gorodnichenko and Gerard Roland. Culture, Institutions, and the Wealth of Nations. The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 99, No. 3, July 2017.

4. Alberto Alesina and Paola Giuliano, Culture and Institutions. Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 53, 2015, pp. 898–944.

5. Facundo Alvaredo and others, The Top 1 Percent in International and Historical Perspective. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 27, 2013, pp. 3–20.

6. Giovanni Andrea Cornia. Changes in income, education and health inequality over the last 20 years: evidence from Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. DISEI - Università degli Studi di Firenze, Working Paper No. 10/2017.

7. Frederic L. Pryor, Determinants of the Size of the Nonprofit Sector. The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 9, 2012, pp. 337-348.

8. Dag Detter, Stefan Fölster, and Willem Buiter. The Public Wealth of Nations. Citi GPS: Global Perspectives & Solutions, June 2015.

9. Koen Caminada, Kees Goudswaard, and Chen Wang, Disentangling Income Inequality and the Redistributive Effect of Taxes and Transfers in 20 LIS Countries over Time. LIS Working Papers, No. 581, 2012.

10. Peter H. Lindert, Purchasing Power Disparity before 1914. NBER Working Paper No. 22896, December 2016.

11. James B. Davies and others, The Level and Distribution of Global Household Wealth, Economic Journal, Vol. 121, March 2010, pp. 223-254.

12. Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, The True Levels of Government and Social Expenditures in Advanced Economies. Peterson Institute for International Economics, Policy Brief 15-4, March 2015.

• Capitalism

13. Jonathan F. Schulz, Duman Bahrami-Rad, Jonathan P. Beauchamp, Joseph Henrich, The Church, intensive kinship, and global psychological variation. Science 366, 707, 2019.

14. Louis Chauvel and Martin Schröder. A Prey-Predator Model of Trade Union Density and Inequality in 12 Advanced Capitalisms over Long Periods. KYKLOS ,Vol. 70, No. 1, February 2017.

15. Geoffrey Jones, Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective. Harvard Business School Working Paper 14-004, 2013.

16. John Gibson and David McKenzie, The Economic Consequences of ‘Brain Drain’ of the Best and Brightest: Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries, Economic Journal, Vol. 122, May 2012, pp. 339-375.

• Socialism

17. Anjel Errasti, Ignacio Bretos, and Aitziber Nunez. The Viability of Cooperatives: The Fall of the Mondragon Cooperative Fagor. Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 49, Issue 2, 2017.

18. Ran Abramitzky, Lessons from the Kibbutz on the Equality-Incentives Trade-Off, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2011, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 185–208.

19. Andrei Shleifer, State versus Private Ownership. The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 12, No. 4. (Autumn, 1998), pp. 133-150.

• Economic Development

20. Michael Spence, Some Thoughts on the Washington Consensus and Subsequent Global
Development Experience. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2021.

21. Rema Hanna and Benjamin A. Olken, Universal Basic Incomes versus Targeted Transfers: Anti-Poverty Programs in Developing Countries. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol 32, No 4, 2018.

22. Horst Feldmann. The Long Shadows of Spanish and French Colonial Education. KYKLOS, Vol. 69, No. 1, February 2016.

23. Boris Nikolaev and Raufhon Salahodjaev. Historical Prevalence of Infectious Diseases, Cultural Values, and the Origins of Economic Institutions. KYKLOS ,Vol. 70, No. 1, February 2017.

24. Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg, How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development? Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 51, 2013, pp. 325–369.

25. William Easterly and Ross Levine. The European Origins of Economic Development. NBER Working Paper No. 18162, June 2012.

 

26. Justin Yifu Lin. From Flying Geese to Leading Dragons: New Opportunities and Strategies for Structural Transformation in Developing Countries. World Bank, WPS5702, June 2011.

• Western Hemisphere

27. Kathleen Staudt, How NAFTA Has Changed Mexico, Current History, February 2018.

28. Carlos Ricardo Caichiolo. The Mercosur Experience and Theories of Regional Integration. Contexto Internacional, Vol. 39, No. 1, Jan/Apr 2017.

29. Robert A. Blecker. The Mexican and U.S. Economies After Twenty Years of NAFTA. International Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 43, no. 2, Summer 2014.

30. Enrique Dussel Peters and Kevin P. Gallagher. NAFTA’s Uninvited Guest: China and the Disintegration of North American Trade. CEPAL Review, Vol. 110, August 2013.

31. John McLaren and Shushanik Hakobyan. Looking for Local Labor Market Effects of NAFTA. NBER Working Paper No. 16535, November 2010.

• United States

  32. Gavin Wright, Slavery and the Rise of the Nineteenth-Century American Economy, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 36, No. 2, Spring 2022.
  
  32. Jean-Felix Brouillette, Charles I. Jones, and Peter J. Klenow, Race and Economic Well-Being in the United States. NBER Working Paper No. 29539, December 2021.
  
  33. Anna Stansbury, Lawrence H. Summers, The Declining Worker Power Hypothesis: An Explanation for
  the Recent Evolution of the American Economy. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Spring 2020.
  
  34. Florian Hoffmann, David S. Lee, and Thomas Lemieux, Growing Income Inequality in the United States and Other Advanced Economies. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 34, Number 4, Fall 2020.
  
  35. Chad P. Bown and Caroline Freund, The Problem of US Labor Force Participation. Peterson Institute for International Economics, Working Paper 19-1, January 2019.

• 36. Kathleen M. Kahle and René M. Stulz. Is the US Public Corporation in Trouble? Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 3, Summer 2017.

  37. Lionel Fontagné and Ann Harrison, The Factory-Free Economy: Outsourcing, Servitization and the Future of Industry. NBER Working Paper No. 23016, January 2017.
  

  
  38. Lawrence F. Katz and Alan B. Krueger, The Rise and Nature of Alternative Work Arrangements in the United States, 1995-2015. NBER Working Paper No. 22667, 2016.

   

   

• Latin America

40. Maximiliano Marzetti and Rok Spruk, Long‑Term Economic Effects of Populist Legal Reforms: Evidence from Argentina, Comparative Economic Studies, 2022.

41. Ilan Goldfajn, Lorenza Martínez, and Rodrigo O. Valdés, Washington Consensus in Latin America: From Raw Model to Straw Man. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2021.

42. Julian Messina and Joana Silva, Twenty Years of Wage Inequality in Latin America. The World Bank Economic Review, 35(1), 2021.

43. Albert Fishlow, A Changing Development Strategy. Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 66, Spring/Summer 2013.

 

• Western Europe

  44. Florin Bilbiie, Tommaso Monacelli, and Roberto Perotti, Fiscal Policy in Europe: Controversies over Rules, Mutual Insurance, and Centralization. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2021
  
  45. Patrice Muller and others, From Shadow to Formal Economy: Leveling the Playing Field in the Single Market. European Parliament, 2013.

  46. Maria Skovager Jensen, Kim Martin Lind, and Henrik Zobbe. Enlargement of the European Union and Agricultural Policy Reform. European Integration, Vol. 31, No. 3, 329–348, May 2009.

  47. Charles Wyplosz, The Six Flaws of the Eurozone. Economic Policy, 2016 pp. 559–606.

• Great Britain

  48. Thomas Sampson. Brexit: The Economics of International Disintegration. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 31, No. 4, Fall 2017.

  49. Nauro F. Campos and Fabrizio Coricelli. EU Membership, Mrs Thatcher’s Reforms and Britain’s Economic Decline. Comparative Economic Studies, Vol. 59, Issue 2, 2017.

  50. Gregory Clark, A Review Essay on The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700–1850 by Joel Mokyr, Journal of Economic Literature 2012, 50:1, pp. 85–95.

   

  51. Bruce A. Weinberg, An Assessment of British Science Over the Twentieth Century, Economic Journal, Vol. 119, June 2009. Pp. 252-269.

   

  52. Alan Manning and Sanchari Roy, Culture Clash or Culture Club? National Identity in Britain, Economic Journal, Vol.120, February 2010, pp. 72-100.

   

• Germany

53. Simon Jager, Benjamin Schoefer, and Jorg Heining, Labor in the boardroom. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 136, Issue 2, 2021.

54. Steffen Müller and Jens Stegmaier, Why is there resistance to works councils in Germany?  An economic perspective. Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 41(3), 2020.

55. Sascha O. Becker, Lukas Mergele, and Ludger Woessmann, The Separation and Reunification of Germany: Rethinking a Natural Experiment Interpretation of the Enduring Effects of Communism. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Spring 2020.

56. Uwe Jirjahn and Stephen C. Smith, Nonunion Employee Representation: Theory and the German Experience with Mandated Works Councils. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 89 (1), 2018.

57. Michael C. Burda and Jennifer Hunt. What Explains the German Labor Market Miracle in the Great Recession? NBER Working Paper No. 17187, June 2011.

58. Christian Merkl and Dennis Snower, East German Unemployment: The Myth of the Irrelevant Labor Market. Kiel Working Papers No. 1435, 2008.




59. Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Uta Schönberg, and Alexandra Spitz-Oener, From Sick Man of Europe to Economic Superstar: Germany’s Resurgent Economy. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 28, Number 1, Winter 2014, pages 167–188.

60. Uwe Blien, Joachim Möller , and Phan thi Hong Van, Why are East Germans Still Lagging Behind? Regional Labor Market Differences 25 Years after Reunification? 55th ERSA Conference, August 2015.

• France

  
  61. Clément Dherbécourt, Social Mobility in France: What Do We Really Know? France Strategie, 2021.
  

  
  62. International Commission, Major Future Challenges to the French Economy - Opening Chapters, 2021.
  
  63. Mark Weisbrot, Lara Merling, Alexander Main, and David Rosnick. The French Economy, European Authorities, and the IMF: “Structural Reform” or Increasing Employment? Center for Economic and Policy Research, April 2017.
  
  64. Jean-Claude Barbier, The French Social Protection System in the Throes of Reform (1975-2007). Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne CNRS Working Paper, 2007.48

   

  65. Jonah D. Levy, The State After Statism: French Economic and Social Policy in the Age of Globalization. Thirteenth International Conference of Europeanists, Chicago, 2002.   

   

• Sweden

  66. Swedish Government, Ministry of Finance, The Swedish Model, June 2017.

  67. Anders Forslund and Alan Krueger, Did Active Labor Market Policies Help Sweden Rebound from the Depression of the Early 1990s? From Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden, edited by Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg, and Robert Topel. The University of Chicago Press, 2010.

  68. Andreas Bergh, The Rise, Fall and Revival of the Swedish Welfare State: What are the Policy Lessons from Sweden? IFN Working Paper No. 873, 2011.

  69. Geoffrey E. Schneider, Sweden's Economic Recovery and the Theory of Comparative Institutional Advantage. Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLI, No. 2, June 2007.

  70. David Rae. How Can Scandinavians Tax So Much?. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28(4).

  Central Eurasia

  71. Johannes C. Buggle and Steven Nafziger. The slow road from serfdom: labor coercion and long-run development in the former Russian empire. The Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. CIII, March 2021.
  
  72. Michael Alexeev, Review of Russia’s Crony Capitalism: The Path from Market Economy to Kleptocracy by Anders Åslund. Journal of Economic Literature, 59(1), 2021.
  
  73. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln and Matthias Schündeln, The Long-Term Effects of Communism in Eastern Europe. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 34, Number 2, Spring 2020.
  
  74. Richard Grieveson et al, Looking Back, Looking Forward: Central and Eastern Europe 30 Years After the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies, Occasional Papers 4, November 2019.
  
  75. Simeon Djankov and Elena Nikolovac, Communism as the Unhappy Coming. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol 46, 2018.
  
  79. Karsten Staehr, The Choice of Reforms and Economic System in the Baltic States. Comparative Economic Studies, Vol 59, No 4, 2017

  81. Barbara Czarniawska, Does Planning Belong to the Politics of the Past? Contemporary Economics, Vol. 6, No. 4, December 2012, pp. 36-48.

  83. Roberto Dell’Anno and Stefania Villa, Growth in Transition Countries: Big Bang versus Gradualism. University of Salerno, Department of Economics and Statistics Discussion Paper 122, 2012.

  84. J. David Brown, John S. Earle, and Almos Telegdy, Employment and Wage Effects of Privatisation: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine, Economic Journal, Vol. 120, June 2009, pp. 683-708.

   

  85. Nicholas Bloom, Helena Schweiger, and John Van Reenen. The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries. NBER Working Paper No. 17231, July 2011.

  86. Ariel BenYishay and Pauline Grosjean, Initial endowments and economic reform in 27 post-socialist countries, Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (4) (2014).

  87. Paul Castañeda Dower Andrei Markevich. A History of Resistance to Privatization in Russia. Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 42, 2014, pp. 855–873.

• Asia

88. Rohit Lamba and Arvind Subramanian, Dynamism with Incommensurate Development: The Distinctive Indian Model. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Volume 34, Number 1, Winter 2020, pp. 3–30.




89. Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding, Asian Business Systems: Institutional Comparison, Clusters and Implications for Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems Theory. Socioeconomic Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2013, pp. pp. 265-300.

 

90. Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande, Why Are Indian Children So Short? NBER Working Paper No. 21036, March 2015  

 

91. W. Max Corden, The Asian Crisis: a Perspective after Ten Years. Australian National University Working Paper, 2007.
 

• Japan 

  92. Masazumi Wakatabe, Has Japan's Economy Changed? Challenges and Prospects. Bank of Japan, 2019.
  
  93. Keith Cowling and Philip R.Tomlinson,The Japanese Model in Retrospective: Industrial Strategies, Corporate Japan and the 'Hollowing Out' of Japanese Industry. Policy Studies, Vol. 32, No. 6, November 2011, pp. 569-83.

  94. Katsuki Aoki and Thomas Lennerfors, Whither Japanese Keiretsu? The Transformation of Vertical Keiretsu in Toyota, Nissan and Honda 1991-2011. Asia Pacific Business Review, Vol. 19, No. 1, January 2013, pp. 70-84.

  95. Uwe Vollmer and Ralf Bebenroth, The Financial Crisis in Japan: Causes and Policy Reactions by the Bank of Japan. The European Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 9, 2012, pp. 51-77.

  96. Randall Morck and Masao Nakamura, Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth. NBER Working Paper No. 13171, June 2007.

   

•  China

97. Yeling Tan, How the WTO Changed China: The Mixed Legacy of Economic Engagement. Foreign Affairs, March/April 2021.

98. Junsen Zhang, A Survey on Income Inequality in China. Journal of Economic Literature, 59(4), 2021.

99. Zhangkai Huang, Gordon M. Phillips, Jialun Yang, and Yi Zhang, Education and Innovation: The Long Shadow of the Cultural Revolution. NBER Working Paper No. 27107, May 2020

100. Ting Chen and James Kai-Sing Kung, Busting the “Princelings”: The Campaign Against Corruption in China’s Primary Land Market. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol 134, Issue 1, February 2019.

101. Elizabeth C. Economy, China's New Revolution: The Reign of Xi Jinping, Foreign Affairs, May/June 2018

102. Liu Shouying and Xiong Xuefeng, China’s rural institutions and governance since the beginning of the rural reform. China Economic Journal, VOL. 11, NO. 3, 2018, 259–283

103. Jin Yang and others, Plunging into the Sea: Ideological Change, Institutional Environments and Private Entrepreneurship in China. CESifo Working Paper No. 7077, 2018.

104. Qingnan Xie and Richard B. Freeman, Bigger Than You Thought: China's Contribution to Scientific Publications. NBER Working Paper No. 24829, July 2018.

105. Peter Cai. Understanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Lowy Institute for International Policy, March 2017.

106. Richard Herd, The Evolution of China’s Social Policies. Economic Change and Restructuring, Volume 46, Issue 1, March 2013, pp. 109-141.

107. Loren Brandt, Debin Ma, and Thomas G. Rawski, From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China’s Economic Boom. Journal of Economic Literature, March 2014.

108. Douglas Almond, Hongbin Li, and Shuang Zhang, Land Reform and Sex Selection in China. NBER Working Paper No. 19153, 2013.

109. Xiaodong Zhu, Understanding China’s Growth: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 26, No. 4, Fall 2012, pp, 103–124.

110. Chenggang Xu, The Fundamental Institutions of China’s Reforms and Development, Journal of Economic Literature, 2011, 49:4, pp. 1076–1151.

111. Shuming Bao, Örn B. Bodvarsson, Jack W. Hou, and Yaohui Zhao, The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy: China’s Hukou System. IZA Discussion Paper No. 4493, October 2009.

 

112. Wei Li and Dennis Tao Yang. The Great Leap Forward: Anatomy of a Central Planning Disaster. Journal of Political Economy. Vol. 113 (2005), pp. 840-877.

• Africa

113. Whelsy Boungou, Francis Osei‑Tutu, and Amara Zongo, Democracy and Intra‑Africa Trade, Comparative Economic Studies, 2023.

114. Yu Zhang, Zhicheng Phil Xu, and Shahriar Kibriya, The long-term effects of the slave trade on political violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Comparative Economics, 49, 2021.

115. Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa. Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 35, Number 3, Summer 2021.

116. Haruna Sekabira and Matin Qaim, Can Mobile Phones Improve Gender Equality and Nutrition? Panel Data Evidence from Farm Households in Uganda. Georg-August-University of Göttingen GlobalFood Working Paper RTG 1666, April 2017.

117. Tony Addison, Ville Pikkarainen, Risto Rönkkö, and Finn Tarp. Development and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. WIDER Working Paper 2017/169, September 2017.

118. Peter Boone and others, The Surprisingly Dire Situation of Children's Education in Rural West Africa. NBER Working Paper No. 18971, 2013.

119. Leander Heldring and James A. Robinson, Colonialism and Economic Development in Africa. NBER Working Paper No. 18566, 2012.

120. Xinshen Diao, Josaphat Kweka, and Margaret McMillan, Economic Transformation in Africa from the Bottom Up: Evidence from Tanzania. NBER Working Paper No. 22889, December 2016.

 

121. Nathan Nunn and Diego Puga. Ruggedness: The Blessing of Bad Geography in Africa. NBER Working Paper 14918, April 2009.

 

122. Jean-Claude Berthélemy and Josselin Thuilliez, The Economics of Malaria in Africa, WIDER Working Paper 2014/047 February 2014.

 

123. Margaret S. McMillan and Kenneth Harttgen, What is driving the ‘African Growth Miracle’? NBER Working Paper No. 20077, April 2014.

 

124. Xinshen Diao and Margaret McMillan, “Toward an Understanding of Economic Growth in Africa: A Re-Interpretation of the Lewis Model,” NBER Working Paper No. 21018, March 2015. NBER Working Paper No. 20077, April 2014.

 

• Middle East

 

125. Scheherazade S. Rehman and Hossein Askari, How Islamic are Islamic Countries? Global Economy Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, 2010.

126. Timur Kuran, Why the Middle East Is Economically Underdeveloped: Historical Mechanisms of Institutional Stagnation. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 18 ( Summer 2004): 71-90.

 

127. Mthuli Ncube, John Anyanwu and Kjell Hausken, Inequality, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa Working Paper Series N° 195 African Development Bank, 2013.

 

128. Patrick Imam and Kangni Kpodar, Is Islamic Banking Good for Growth? IMF Working Paper WP/15/81, April 2015.

 

129. Adeel Malik, A Requiem for the Arab Development Model. Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 68, Fall/Winter 2014.

 

130. Laura El-Katiri and Bassam Fattouh, A Brief Political Economy of Energy Subsidies in the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies Paper: MEP 11, February 2015.