From Warfare to Wealth - The Military Origins of Urban Prosperity in Europe

This book provides a new way to think about long-run economic and political development that speaks to several fundamental debates.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The importance of warfare; 3. Europe's urban rise; 4. Evaluating the safe harbor effect; 5. Evaluating the warfare-to-wealth effect; 6. Warfare to wealth in comparative perspective; Epilogue.

About the author

Mark Dincecco is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan. He is the author of Political Transformations and Public Finances: Europe, 1650–1913 (Cambridge, 2011). In 2016–17, he was the Edward Teller National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, California.Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato is a faculty member in the Department of Economics and Finance at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano. He is the author of several peer-reviewed journal articles. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milan. In 2010–11, he was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy at Yale University, Connecticut.

Summary

This book provides a new way to think about the process of long-run economic and political development that speaks to several fundamental debates in the social sciences. Thus, it will appeal to a large audience, including political scientists, economists, economic historians, sociologists, and graduate and undergraduate students.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Dincecco, Mark (University of Michigan Dincecco, Dincecco Mark, Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.12.2017
• EAN: 9781316612590
• ISBN: 978-1-316-61259-0
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Political Economy of Instituti; Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political Economy