Property Rights

This work focuses on how the French Revolution rewrote the rules that governed invest in agricultural infrastructure and enabled a significant increase in investment in the section when compared with the period before 1789

 

Le drainage dans le Pays d’Auge: Les conséquences des droits de propriété incertains. In S. Ciriacono ed. Eau et développement dans l’Europe moderne. Editions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, Paris, 2004, 197-217. (PDF)

 

The Development of Irrigation in Provence 1700-1860: The French Revolution and Economic Growth. Journal of Economic History, Vol. 50, September 1990, 615-638. (PDF)

             A second strand of work examines the political economy of divided fiscal author (a hallmark of pre-industrial states)

The Political Economy of Absolutism Reconsidered.” In Analytic Narratives, coedited with R. Bates, A. Greif, M. Levi, and B. Weingast. Princeton University Press, 1998, 63-108.

The Political Economy of Warfare and Taxation in Early Modern Europe: Historical Lessons for Economic Development.” With Philip T. Hoffman. In  J. Droback and J. Nye eds. Frontiers of Institutional Economics. Academic Press, 1997, 31-55.

Divided We Fall: The Political Economy of  Warfare and Taxation.” With Philip T. Hoffman. Summer 2000.