Understanding development in the long run: Cracks in the consensus on institutions? (opens in new tab)

Jean-Paul Faguet, Camilo Matajira and Fabio Sánchez have written a paper on long run development in Colombia: The Spanish encomienda, a colonial forced-labour institution that lasted three centuries, killed many indigenous people and caused others to flee into nomadism. What were its long-term effects? We digitize a great deal of historical data from the mid-1500s onwards […]