This paper assesses the impact of the Protestant Reformation on wealth distribution and inequality in confessionally divided Germany, between 1400 and 1800. The Reformation expanded social welfare, bu...

The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not

What 700 years of pandemic responses reveal about institutional effectiveness

How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

This paper provides macro-level estimates of the prevalence of poverty in preindustrial Germany, from the Black Death to the onset of industrializatio…

This paper provides macro-level estimates of the prevalence of poverty in preindustrial Germany, from the Black Death to the onset of industrializatio…

Volume 25, issue 4 of the journal German Economic Review was published in 2024.