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 / James Belich Politics, banking, and economic development : evidence from New World economies / Stephen Haber Intra-island and inter-island comparisons / Jared Diamond Shackled to the past : the causes and consequences of Africa's slave trades / Nathan Nunn Colonial land tenure, electoral competition, and public goods in India / Abhijit Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer From ancien régime to capitalism : the spread of the French Revolution as a natural experiment / Daron Acemoglu ... [et al.] Afterword: Using comparative methods in studies of human history / Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson
