Selected Publications

Working paper

• General Purpose Technologies and the Industrial Revolution

Books

• Information Revolutions in the History of the West, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2008.
• The Word and the Sword : How Techniques of Information and Violence Have Shaped our World, Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, Mass., 1991.

Articles

• “Religion, Politics and Luck: Explaining the Rise of Sustained Innovation”, Homo Oeconomicus, 25:1 (2008), 55-90.
• “The Great Realignment: How Factor-Biased Innovation Reshaped Comparative Advantage in the US and Japan, 1970-1992″, Japan and the World Economy, 19 (2007), 112-132, with Johannes Moenius.
• “Arms and the Man: World War I and the Rise of the Welfare State”, Kyklos, 57:4 (2004), 475-504, with Ulrich Witt.
• “Standardized Latin and Medieval Economic Growth,” European Review of Economic History, 7:2 (2003), 213-238, with Ulrich Blum.
• “Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?” Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 11:2 (2001), 207-230, with Ulrich Blum.
• “The Rationality of Revolution,” Economics of Governance, 1:1 (2000), 77-103.
• “The Two Germanies: Information Technology and Economic Divergence,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 155:4 (1999), 710-737, with U. Blum.
• “Le secteur public: moteur de croissance ou obstruction à l’industrie?” Actualité économique, 75 (1999), 357-378, with Claude Montmarquette.
• “Communications and Economic Growth”, European Economic Review, 43:3 (1999), pp. 595-619.
• “Fast Convergence: Institutions and Economic Growth in the New East Germany,” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften/Review of Economics, 49:2 (1998), 124-143 (with Ulrich Blum).
• “Space, Time, Number: Harold Innis as Evolutionary Theorist,” Canadian Journal of Economics, 28 (1995), pp. 754-769.
• “Punishment, Reward and the Fortunes of States,” Public Choice, 74 (1992), 293-315.
• “A Spatial Model of the State,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 147 (1991), 312-336, with Ulrich Blum.
• “Structural Change in Interdependent Bureaucracies: Was Rome’s Failure Economic or Military?” Explorations in Economic History, 27 (1990), 232-248.
• “A Spatial Approach to Structural Change: The Making of the French Hexagon”, Journal of Economic History, 49 (1989), 657-676, with Ulrich Blum.

Chapters in collective works

• “Language as Platform : A Theory of Subsidiarity and the Nation State,” in Democracy, Freedom and Coercion: A Law and Economics Approach, Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin, eds. Edward Elgar, 2007, Cheltenham, UK, 155-170.
• Explaining the Great Divergence : Medium and Message on the Eurasian Land Mass, 1700-1850,” in Law and the State : A Political Economy Approach, Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin, eds. Edward Elgar, 2005, London, 100-120.
• “Culture and Efficiency : Economic Effects of Religion, Nationalism and Ideology”, in Current Trends in Public Choice Theory, Jose Casas Pardo and Friedrich Schneider, editors, Edward Elgar, London, 1996, 69-90,  with U. Blum.