This paper estimates the regional effects of high-speed broadband coverage on economic
growth in a panel of 1348 regions across all European Union Member States between 2011 …

" New York is too big this way," the mayor says, raising a thick hand over his head.
Stretching both arms out at his sides, he adds," Los Angeles is too big this way. All the other …

By the end of the nineteenth century the global telegraph network had connected all
continents and brought distant people into direct communication'at the speed of thought'for …

Many economic historians, like most economists, depend on standard growth accounts to
provide some quantitative description of the proximate sources of growth, but this is …

We use newly digitized records from the post office to study the effects of strengthened state
capacity between 1875 and 1901. Exploiting the implementation of the Pendleton Act—a …

If geography is the study of how human beings are stretched over the earth's surface, a vital
part of that process is how we know and feel about space and time. Although space and time …

This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the" information
highway" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their …

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In this paper we reconsider the international market integration, starting at high levels in the
late nineteenth century, collapsing between the wars, and recovering gradually after 1945 to …

Using case studies and concepts we suggest that constraints upon aggregate or global
forest transition are significantly more severe than those upon local forest reversals. The …