Professor, University of Manchester. Fellow ICS-UL. Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. Economic History, Growth & Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy. Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/npgpalma/home .. more
Professor, University of Manchester. Fellow ICS-UL. Director of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. Economic History, Growth & Development, Macroeconomics, Political Economy. Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/npgpalma/home
In a new working paper (with Tim Besley, Dan Bogart, and Jonathan Chapman @jnchapman-econ.bsky.social, we show that Justices of the Peace — magistrates acting locally — were a quiet engine behind modern economic growth. 🧵👇1/7