Libraries and networks of influence in the Roman world

This paper is concerned with the ways in which libraries – in this case public libraries in Rome and the Roman world – acted as points of connectivity and communication.

Risk, Transaction Costs, and Tax Assignment: Government Finance in the Ottoman Empire

Risk and transaction costs often provide competing explanations of institutional outcomes. In this paper we argue that they offer opposing predictions regarding the assignment of fixed and variable taxes in a multi-tiered governmental structure. While the central government can pool regional risks from variable taxes, local governments can measure variable tax bases more accurately. Evidence on tax assignment from the mid-sixteenth century Ottoman Empire supports the transaction cost explanation, suggesting that risk matters less because insurance can be obtained in a variety of ways.

A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians : in the higher and middle classes, contrasted with real Christianity. Abridged.

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The commonwealth of nations; an inquiry into the nature of citizenship in the British empire, and into the mutual relations of the several communities thereof,

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Historical and descriptive account of British India, from the most remote period to the present time: including a narrative of the early Portuguese and English voyages, the revolutions in the Mogul empire, and the ... establishment of the British power;

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