Other Writings

State Development in Western Europe from 1500 Onwards

Chapter in Institutional Dynamics and Organizational Complexity, Jenna Bednar, Thomas Currie, Sergey Gavrilets, Peter Richerson, and John Wallis, Editors. Cultural Evolution Society, Forthcoming

State Capacity in Historical Political Economy, with Yuhua Wang

Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy, Jeffrey Jenkins and Jared Rubin, Editors. Oxford, 253-69, 2024

New Perspectives on State Formation

Review Essay in Perspectives on Politics, 21: 1447-52, 2023

Napoleon in Italy: A Legacy of Institutional Reform?, with Giovanni Federico

Chapter in The Crucible of Revolutionary and Napoleonic Warfare and European Transitions to Modern Economic Growth, Patrick O'Brien, Editor. Brill, 141-70, 2022

Review of David Stasavage, The Decline and Rise of Democracy

Governance, 34: 959-60, 2021

State Capacity, Economic Development, and the Role of History 

Newsletter of the Organized Section in Comparative Politics of the American Political Science Association, 29: 42-9, 2019

Review of Wenkai He, Paths toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China

Economic History Review, 68: 1467-8, 2015

Review of Carl Mosk, Nationalism and Economic Development in Modern Eurasia

Journal of Economic History, 74: 924-5, 2014

Review of Bartolome Yun-Casalilla and Patrick O’Brien, The Rise of Fiscal States: A Global History, 1500-1914

Journal of Economic History, 73: 288-90, 2013

Review of David Stasavage, States of Credit: Size, Power, and the Development of European Polities

Journal of Economic History, 72: 284-6, 2012

Review of Lars Magnusson, Nation, State, and the Industrial Revolution: The Visible Hand

Journal of Economic History, 71: 807-9, 2011

Review of Jose Luis Cardoso and Pedro Lains, Paying for the Liberal State: The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Journal of Economic History, 71: 233-4, 2011