… "Alan Taylor puts everything we thought we knew about early America in a refreshing
international context. All over the country, teachers will be throwing out stale lecture notes. …

Do external imbalances increase the risk of financial crises? This paper studies the experience
of 14 developed countries over 140 years (1870–2008). It exploits the long-run data set …

In a prospective-longitudinal study of a representative birth cohort, we tested why stressful
experiences lead to depression in some people but not in others. A functional polymorphism …

The financial crisis has refocused attention on money and credit fluctuations, financial crises,
and policy responses. We study the behavior of money, credit, and macroeconomic …

We studied a large sample of male children from birth to adulthood to determine why some
children who are maltreated grow up to develop antisocial behavior, whereas others do not. …

Persistent changes in tree mortality rates can alter forest structure, composition, and
ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration. Our analyses of longitudinal data from …

During ten of the 31 years between 1914 and 1945 the English people were involved in
world wars; for 19 of the years they lived in the shadow of mass unemployment. These …

Originally propounded by the sixteenth-century scholars of the University of Salamanca, the
concept of purchasing power parity (PPP) was revived in the interwar period in the context of …

Cutting a cake, dividing up the property in an estate, determining the borders in an
international dispute-such problems of fair division are ubiquitous. Fair Division treats all these …

From the Back Cover: From the moment of its publication in 1961, AJP Taylor's seminal work
caused a storm of praise and controversy, and it has since been recognized as a classic: …