Dutch Wednesday, 7.10.2015: Democracy and economic development – a perspective from economic history

Prof. Jan Luiten van Zanden, Utrecht University

In this lecture prof. Jan Luiten van Zanden and Sarah Carmichael presented their research project which concerns measurement of economic development of different countries through the history. It captures a macro-level (institutions like political regimes, religions etc) and a micro-level including family systems and gender relations.