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Jeremiah Dittmar and Ralf R Meisenzahl: The Protestant Reformation, Economic Institutions, and Development
Dietrich Vollrath: Can We Get Rich by “Doing Business” Better?
Justin Wolfers: Brownback’s Kansas Experiment a Failure
Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell, and Maya Sen: The Political Legacy of American Slavery
Comment of the Day: Tacitus “It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured…”
Weekend Reading: Alexis de Tocqueville: Book II Chapter 20 The Aristocracy of Manufacturers
Weekend Reading: Paul Krugman (2015): Annoying Euro Apologetics

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