The Origins of Indirect Rule in India: Hyderabad and the British Imperial Order
| Research Articles Kavita Saraswathi Datla, Law and History Review, Volume 33 Issue 02, pp 321-350 Abstract |  |
The End of Entail: Information, Institutions, and Slavery in the American Revolutionary Period
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Kirkuk conflict in its ethnic/political media: the Turkmen newspaper Alqal’a as a model
10.1080/14608944.2015.1011610
Salih Moustafa
Salih Moustafa
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14608944.2015.1011610?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Developments in German Politics
10.1080/09644008.2015.1029307
Helge F. Jani
Helge F. Jani
Quelle: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09644008.2015.1029307?ai=z4&mi=3fqos0&af=R
Wespennest | 168 (2015)
Ramsch [Junk]
Quelle: http://www.eurozine.com/journals/wespennest/issue/2015-05-05.html
Agricultural protection and support in the European Economic Community, 1962-92: rent-seeking or welfare policy?
The European Economic Community's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has found a lot of scholarly attention. While economists stress the irrationality of the CAP and explain its striking persistence by rent-seeking behavior, a prominent interpretation among historians is that the CAP should be interpreted as welfare policy for farm households. I subject the latter hypothesis for the period 1962–92 to an empirical test and find that the combined benefits from subsidies, import protection, and political prices gave much more benefits to European agriculture than any welfare policy could have achieved. If one still wants to find arguments legitimizing the political rents (or part of them) that agriculture received through the CAP one has to consider non-economic arguments (food security in the Cold War) or external effects (protection of the environment or landscape).
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/19/2/195?rss=1
Plenty of land, land of plenty: the agrarian output of Portugal (1311-20)
This article presents a benchmark for Portuguese agrarian output for the 1311–20 decade. This benchmark is built from the supply side using the value of church tithes combined with contemporary parish accounts. Two main findings emerge: first, per capita agrarian output was similar in the recently conquered South and the North, hinting that internal migration after the Reconquista led to the equalization of marginal product across the country; second, that Portuguese real per capita agrarian output was above subsistence and higher than that of contemporary England and Wales. This result, which is robust to the assumptions used, confirms that by 1320 Portugal was a "frontier economy" with a high land/labor ratio and a high per capita output. This seems to reinforce the Malthusian theory that the amount of land per person was key in determining living standards. The article discusses the implication of these results for the inequality among nations.
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/19/2/149?rss=1
Self-defeating austerity? Evidence from 1930s‘ Britain
Self-defeating austerity entails "perverse effects" of fiscal consolidation such that fiscal indicators deteriorate. Inter alia, this depends on the size of the fiscal multiplier as Keynes (1933. The Means to Prosperity. London: Macmillan) underlined. We find that the government-expenditure multiplier was less than 1 in 1930s' Britain. Austerity was not self-defeating in the long run and even its initial impact probably did not raise the public debt-to-GDP ratio. In the later 1930s, there was a "fiscal free lunch" in that deficit-financed government spending would have improved public finances enough to pay for the interest on the extra debt.
Quelle: http://ereh.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/19/2/109?rss=1