This article argues that modern time discipline was a product of the eighteenth-century. Whereas other works have emphasized the integration of time through nineteenth-century railway networks, this article holds that science and the state combined to bring discipline to time…

This essay contests the view that humanity’s centuries-long experience with clocks is marked by a steady increase in time awareness that culminated in the modern compulsion known as “time discipline”. It argues, in contrast, that modern time discipline emerged during…

Taking as point of departure the basics of the economics of innovation, the Mexican evidence builds on two major obstacles: market failures inhibit economic returns to R&D and, consequently, the inexistence of a national innovation system. In such context, fiscal…

Market failures in human capital investment and innovation explain the main features of human development and economic growth. This is shown in a Schumpeterian multi-country model with technology transfer and trade. Thus, only institutions expanding investments in nutrition, education, health,…

This essay argues that intellectual historians have overlooked the significance of the return of Euclid’s geometric thought to early-modern Europe. Looking at the period between 1400 and 1800, this essay shows how geometric thought not only penetrated into fundamental areas…

This essay illuminates the historical context of the contemporary language of globalization. It argues that the key concepts of the “global” began in ancient Greek thought about unseen space, before being reified through the Renaissance invention of the terrestrial globe.…

Electoral authoritarian regimes represent the modal type of political regimes in the developing world. To control electoral outcomes, such regimes may deploy a broad variety of repressive and manipulative measures. Despite their empirical as well as normative relevance, we possess…

This article challenges the reigning understanding of eighteenth-century Prussia' s public sphere. Scholars have argued that Prussia's public was defined by print, and since print was easily distributed, its print public was potentially (if not actually) universal. This article holds,…

La traducción al español de Economía y sociedad [Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft] de Max Weber es la expresión más compleja de un proyecto para modernizar las ciencias sociales. Este documento de trabajo analiza algunas facetas de la misma que apenas han…

Este documento de trabajo analiza las percepciones, preferencias e intereses de los mexicanos con respecto a la política exterior de México en general y los procesos de integración en América del Norte y el continente americano en particular. Con base…