A new working paper from Nobel laureate James A. Robinson finds a vast landscape of 45,000 polities—deliberately fragmented to protect local autonomy Pre-colonial African societies have long been seen ...
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 / ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. See performances that took place on the National Mall and go behind the scenes with curator James A. Robinson as he reflects on this Festival ...