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Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution

Antonia Frazer’s new book The King and the Catholics brings to light a neglected topic in British history, the removal of legal…

Apr 6, 2019

Catholic Emancipation as a Constitutional Revolution

Apr 6, 2019

The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism

Antisemitism has returned to mainstream politics in Europe and America. One fundamental misconception about antisemitism is that it is…

Mar 20, 2019

The Institutional Foundations of Antisemitism

Mar 20, 2019

Why Persecute?

Why was religious persecution common in the premodern world? This is the question Noel Johnson and I address in Persecution and Toleration…

Mar 15, 2019

Why Persecute?

Mar 15, 2019

Revisiting Epstein’s Freedom and Growth

I was fortunate to be invited give the Epstein Lecture at LSE this March. The series is named after the great LSE economic historian Larry…

Apr 2, 2018

Apr 2, 2018

Books of the Year

The following 2017 books seized my imagination. I’ve focused on non-fiction here rather than fiction.

Dec 16, 2017

Books of the Year

Dec 16, 2017

Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?

This question is prompted by Kingdom of the Wicked, a new book by Helen Dale. Dale forces us to consider Jesus as a religious extremist in…

Nov 7, 2017

Could Rome Have Had an Industrial Revolution?

Nov 7, 2017

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The Counterfactual and the Factual

Historians often appear skeptical of counterfactual arguments. E.H. Carr argued that “a historian should never deal in speculation about…

Aug 11, 2017

The Counterfactual and the Factual

Aug 11, 2017

Some Thoughts on “Seeing Like a State”

James C. Scott, the Yale political scientist, and the author of some of the best books on the history of states, has a new book coming out…

Jul 13, 2017

Jul 13, 2017

Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence

Crossposted on Notes on Liberty

Apr 24, 2017

Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence

Apr 24, 2017

The End of the Past

(crossed posted at Notes on Liberty)

Apr 3, 2017

Apr 3, 2017

Mark Koyama

Mark Koyama

Economist at George Mason University specializing in economic history, law and economics and institutional economics.

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