Auriat, Scott - In: The Journal of European Economic History (JEEH) 52 (2023) 3, pp. 161-232
I explore the fact that the Mongol Empire invaded most of Eurasia but left Western Europe untouched. I hypothesize that differences in exposure to the Mongols resulted in divergent institutional paths. Where the Mongols invaded, they set up highly centralized autocratic institutions. Meanwhile,...