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Barry Weingast talking with Russ Roberts... https://www.econtalk.org/weingast-on-violence-power-and-a-theory-of-nearly-everything/

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Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg (following Alberto Alesina) have a noteworthy research program about the wealth of nations. They emphasize and analyze (a) mechanisms of path dependence, (b) issues of scale (size of nations), and (c) counterintuitive impacts of heterogeneity for conflict and cooperation. Here are some nuggets (open access):

"Barriers to the spread of prosperity":

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/barriers-spread-prosperity

"Kinship and conflict (War and relatedness)":

https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/kinship-and-conflict

"How deep are the roots of economic development?" [JEL]:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2079923

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