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Transport Infrastructure, Growth and Persistence
French Abstract: Infrastructure de transports, croissance et rémanence : avènement et effondrement du Grand Canal de Chine. Cet article étudie l'effet des infrastructures de transport sur la distribution spatiale de la population sur une période s'étalant sur plus de deux millénaires. En nous appuyant sur le Grand Canal de Chine, l'un des plus grands projets d'infrastructure de l'histoire, nous montrons que son achèvement au 7e siècle a conduit à une forte augmentation de la concentration de population autour de ce nouvel axe de circulation. Nous avons analysé la persistance de cet effet en prenant en compte le délabrement de vastes portions du canal au cours du 12e siècle. Nous ...
The Power of Youth
We study the impact of the "Fridays for Future" climate protest movement in Germany on citizen political behavior and explore possible mechanisms. Over the course of 2019, large crowds of young protesters, most below voting age, skipped school to demonstrate for rapid and far-reaching measures to mitigate climate change. Based on cell phone-based mobility data and hand-collected information on almost 4,000 climate protests, we first construct a novel county ×rally-specific measure of protest participation, allowing us to map out how engagement in the climate movement evolved spatially and temporally. Then, using a variety of empirical strategies to address the issue of nonrandom protest par...
The Power of Youth
We study the impact of the Fridays for Future climate protest movement in Germany on citizen political behavior and explore possible mechanisms. Throughout 2019, large crowds of young protesters, the majority of whom were under voting age, skipped school to demand immediate and far-reaching climate change mitigation measures. We exploit cell phone-based mobility data and hand-collected information on nearly 4,000 climate protests to construct a spatially and temporally highly disaggregated measure of protest participation. Then, using various empirical strategies to address the issue of nonrandom protest participation, we show that the local strength of the climate movement led to more Green...
Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration
We show that the creation of the first integrated pan-European transport network during Roman times influences economic integration over two millennia. Drawing on spatially highly disaggregated data on excavated Roman ceramics, we document that interregional trade was strongly influenced by connectivity within the network. Today, these connectivity differentials continue to influence cross-regional firm investment behaviour. Continuity is largely explained by selective infrastructure routing and cultural integration due to bilateral convergence in preferences and values. Both plausibly arise from network-induced history of repeated socio-economic interaction. We show that our results are Roman-connectivity specific and do not reflect pre-existing patterns of exchange.
The Death Factory
Old Army buddies Fred Custer and Green Beret Hickey team up to rescue Jim Simpson, the beloved son of an old colleague. Jim's job was to handle the finances of a Halliburton-like company, but he discovers much to his dismay that the company is rotten to the core and people who should be dedicated to the mission are in fact dedicated to lining their own pockets. Now a whole lot of money has gone missing along with Jim. Custer and Hickey end up in Cairo, where they discover a dark torture prison deep within the heart of the Egyptian desert, nicknamed "The Death Factory." Action movie fans and military thriller readers will love this blend of fire-power, non-stop forward motion, and suspense.
Generic Systems Engineering
In dem Band wird ein Denkmodell mit Umsetzungskonzept vorgestellt, das den Umgang mit Komplexität in der Produktentwicklung und der Produktion erleichtert. Abgeleitet von einfachen Regeln, beruht der Ansatz auf dem Konzept des Systems Engineering. Unterschiedliche, zum Systems Engineering entwickelte Vorgehenskonzepte werden darin zusammengeführt, um gegenwärtige und zukünftige Dimensionen der Komplexität zu bewältigen. Die schnell erfass- und erlernbaren Lösungsansätze werden anhand ausgewählter Beispiele der Produktentwicklung illustriert.
Pirate Lands
"Maritime piracy-like civil war, terrorism, and organized crime-is a problem of weak states. Surprisingly, though, pirates do not operate in the least governed areas of weak states. Pirate Lands addresses this puzzle by explaining why some coastal communities experience more pirate attacks in their vicinity than others. Pirates do well in places where elites and law enforcement can be bribed but they also need access to functioning roads, ports, and markets. Using statistical analyses of cross-national and sub-national data on pirate attacks in Indonesia, Nigeria, and Somalia, Daxecker and Prins detail how governance at the state and local level explain the location of maritime piracy. Pirat...
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