Agricultural modernization brings progress but might also bring conflict
Stefano Falcone and Michele Rosenberg study the effect of the expansion and intensification of capital-intensive agriculture on land conflict.
Topic Archive: Economic Development
Malaria’s long-lasting effects on land inequality in Italy
Paolo Buonanno, Elena Esposito and Giorgio Gulino found that malaria affected where people settled and also how and what they farmed.
The Global Financial Resource Curse
Gianluca Benigno, Luca Fornaro and Martin Wolf offer a new perspective on the consequences of financial globalization, and on the appropriate policy interventions to manage it.
Colonial settlers and economic development in Latin America
José G. Montalvo and Marta Reynal-Querol show a relevant effect of the skills of first colonizers on long-run levels of development in Latin America.
