Books
Alliance Curse: How America Lost the Third World
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Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development
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Governing for Prosperity
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- reviews of Governing for Prosperity
- http://foseti.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/review-of-governing-for-prosperity-by-bruce-bueno-de-mesquita-2/
- review by Jacek Kugler
Small Countries, Big Lessons: Governance and the Rise of East Asia
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1099-162X(199712)17:5%3C555::AID-PAD967%3E3.0.CO;2-S/abstract- review of Small Countries, Big Lessons: Governance and the Rise of East Asia
- review by Joachim Ahrens
- review by Gambhir Bhatta
- review by Eileen M. Doherty
- review by Michael H. Hunt
- review by Saiful Huq
- review by Lucian W. Pye
The Key to the East Asian Miracle: Making Shared Growth Credible
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- http://www.jstor.org/pss/20072110
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- review by Gambhir Bhatta
- review by Ozay Mehmet
- review by Peter Hartcher
Fountain of Privilege: Political Foundations of Markets in Old Regime France and England
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- review by Ferdinand Mount
- review by Frank Dobbin
- review by Kathleen Kete
- review by Edgar Kiser
- review by Thomas J. Schaeper
- review by J. F. Bosher
- review by Katrina Honeyman
- Journal of Economic Literature
- BRA Archives
- International Review of Social History
- http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v031/31.2br_root.html
Peasants and King in Burgundy: Agrarian Foundations of French Absolutism
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- The Journal of Modern History
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=4164960
La construction de l’etat moderne en Europe: Le cas de la France et de l’Angleterre
Root Wire
Hilton Root discusses diversities in global development
Is democracy in China’s future?
US democracy arose in a federalist context; as part of a social contract it secured the consent of the states to join the union. Two other enduring democracies share this precondition: the Europe Union, whose leadership, determined by an electoral system, ensures rotation among equals; and the Indian republic formed in 1947, which faced similar […]Read More »Will Globalization End American Exceptionalism: Ecological Perspective
Throughout most of its history, the United States enjoyed the rare position of being a global player by choice. Until a generation or so ago, the U.S. could wish the world away. Then when it finally welcomed “connectivity,” engagement was on its terms. The young republic enjoyed three conditions unique in the history of state […]Read More »On the structure of global networks and China
Blog 2: (This is part 2 of a series addressing the main themes of my new book, Dynamics Among Nations, published by MIT Press). On the structure of global networks and China (This essay considers Paul Ormerod’s http://www.paulormerod.com/ discussion of network effects and social choices in Positive Linking http://www.amazon.co.uk/Positive-Linking-Networks-Revolutionise-World/dp/0571279201. Paul shared his ideas with my […]Read More »The Limits of Convergence
The extremely impressive fiscal performance of the liberal regimes of North Western Europe, during the early modern period (1600-1800) did not inspire a continent-wide dynamic of convergence towards liberal forms of governance.Read More »