Prologue / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson
Controlled comparison and Polynesian cultural evolution / Patrick V. Kirch
Exploding Wests: boom and bust in nineteenth-century settler societies / James Belich
Politics, banking, and economic development: evidence from New World economies / Stephen Haber
Intra-island and inter-island comparisons / Jared Diamond
Shackled to the past: the causes and consequences of Africa's slave trades / Nathan Nunn
Colonial land tenure, electoral competition, and public goods in India / Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer
From ancien regime to capitalism: the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / Daron Acemoglu, Davide Cantoni, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson
Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson.
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Natural experiments of history. ISBN 9780674035577. Published by Belknap in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
