The Monks who Made Europe
By Jonathan Doucette and Jørgen Møller For almost a thousand years, the Latin west (Western and Central Europe) has been fragmented in two ways: First,
Jørgen Møller
May 20, 2022
Guess Who’s Back; PAP Again
Awhile ago, I wrote a Broadstreet post on the use of PAPs with HPE. Since then, I’ve thought a bit more about this, as part
Alexandra Cirone
May 4, 2022
State Capacity in Historical Political Economy: What, How, Why, and Why Not?
By Mark Dincecco and Yuhua Wang Several recent Broadstreet posts have been about state capacity, including conceptualizations, historical roots, and effects. In light of this,
Mark Dincecco
May 2, 2022
What I Learned from Working with Deceased Soviet Historians
Broadstreet readers may know that Jeff and Jared are editing an Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Tracy and I have committed to writing a
Scott Gehlbach
April 27, 2022
Property Rights, Serfdom, and Institutional Divergence
Do institutions matter? Those who study them are sure they do. But others remain skeptical. When I was a graduate student, I remember having a
Tracy Dennison
April 25, 2022
Can We Solve Noisy Historical Data with Old Newspapers?
A new method from Ferrara, Yeob, and Walsh turns keyword frequencies in historical newspapers into new geographically-varied measures of treatment that can help us thwart attenuation bias.
James Feigenbaum
April 20, 2022