The Hanseatic League was a coalition of German city state merchants that banded together to defend their interests, even to the point of fighting wars when necessary. They lasted 500 years before finally succumbing to Dutch competition. worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise…

New in Broadstreet, Leticia Arroyo Abad and (((Noel Maurer))) on The arm of history is long, but not always strong: The effects of labor coercion in colonial and postcolonial Peru broadstreet.blog/p/the-arm-of-h…

New in Broadstreet, Mark Koyama discusses A New Edition of the Handbook of New Institutional Economics. broadstreet.blog/p/a-new-editio…

The Handbook of New Institutional Economics is available for free here. link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… HT: Mark Koyama

New in Broadstreet, Leticia Arroyo Abad and José Antonio Sánchez Espín discuss The Making of America: migration in colonial times. broadstreet.blog/p/the-making-o…

CSPC's Jonathan Schulz joins the Game Changer podcast to discuss how Church marriage rules restructured Europe’s social fabric -- reshaping innovation and trust. Listen: tws-gamechanger.libsyn.com/the-marriage-p… #EconomicHistory #GMUEcon #economics

New in Broadstreet, Adeel Malik and coauthors ask: Why are frontiers more conflict-prone—and what is the relevance of historical political economy for answering this? broadstreet.blog/p/why-are-fron…

"Democracies don't go to war", they say. Tell that to Athens & Syracuse. Super cool analysis of ancient Greek city-states suggests that democracies actually fought more battles! cc early modern boy-actress (they/them) Patrick Wyman

1/ Early-1700s: top degrees from the imperial exams were captured by a few rich coastal provinces. Scholars from poorer or frontier regions almost never made the final list.

Ron Chernow’s new book, Mark Twain, just landed on my Kindle. I’ve been eagerly awaiting it for months, ever since it was announced. All of Chernow’s books are absolute masterpieces, and I regularly recommend them to my undergrads in U.S. Economic History, in particular The

Such a cool book

From 2023: John Kroencke reviews 'How the World Became Rich' by Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin 🔗theceme.org/john-kroencke-…

Bet you didn't know that this week is the anniversary of Magna Carta (June 15, 1215). Mark Koyama George Mason University Mercatus Center reflects on why an old document still matters.

Why Magna Carta still matters fusionaier.org/post/why-magna…

Read why the Magna Carta still matters in Mark Koyama's latest at Fusion: fusionaier.org/post/why-magna…

As several people requested, I am posting the video of Lecture 1 | Economic Thought from Aristotle to Scholasticism: youtu.be/AcRGlVCJP_g?si… All future videos will be posted here: sites.google.com/view/foundatio… Thanks!

New working paper with Mark Koyama on medieval castles and their role in consolidating the feudal order: desireedesierto.com/wp-content/upl…

Were privately owned castles a sign of state weakness, or strength? 🏰 Desiree Desierto and Mark Koyama draw on the insights of James C. Scott to reveal how private castles empowered a king's rule. loom.ly/dVJee-A