From Warfare to Wealth
Mark Dincecco|Massimiliano Gaetano Onorato
The economic rise of Europe over the past millennium represents a major human breakthrough. To explain this phenomenon, book highlights counterintuitive yet central feature Europe's historical landscape: warfare. Historical warfare inflicted numerous costs on rural populations. Security was traditional function city. mitigate high conflict in countryside, populations migrated to urban centers. Over time, city's role as safe harbor translated into local development through several channels, including political freedoms and capital accumulation. make argument, performs wide-ranging analysis novel quantitative database that spans more than one thousand years, from fall Carolingian Empire today. book's study path wealth provides new way think about process long-run development.