Nico Voigtländer found that to combat arbitrary taxes and corruption, merchants persuaded the king to cede control
Using voting records from a unique transition in the 19th-century Caribbean, Christian Dippel examines the embrace of self-interest by new legislators
Using parish records, researchers examine fundamental changes in society following the French Revolution
In experiments, immorality and harm are deemed more extreme merely because an act was punished
Measuring inbreeding allows study to isolate rulers from circumstances
Can’t sell it, can’t borrow against it, can’t develop it
A clue that parents prefer a son: They have more kids when their firstborn is a girl
Research suggests the nations actually have similar feelings toward wealth
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A culture that valorized revenge among pre-industrial herders resonates today
Large-scale data project produces stark conclusion: military technology + agricultural productivity caused the takeoff
A database of pre-industrial sampling supports historical and ethnographic research
Revisiting decades of research, scholars find a theory of psychological strength emerges
Civil War officers with working-class backgrounds held units together best
The narrative of a growing cultural divide, while partly true, conceals a more nuanced picture
Raising the crop is a communal project, more so than the work of wheat farmers, who’re less attuned to feelings of others