Amerindian political economies of life

Foundations of Political Economies

Functioning oF Political economies

For most of the 1990s, many analysts focused their attention on determining the circumstances under which a particular set of economic policies could be implemented in a post-communist state. Although that research agenda led to important breakthroughs regarding the importance of “first-round winners” in post-communist states and the short-run compatibility of democratization and marketization,...

Archaeological Perspectives on Political Economies

Political Uncertainty and Crime in Transition Economies*

Political Uncertainty and Crime in Transition Economies Two stylized facts are often used to characterize the economies in transition: an increase in the crime level and frequent government changes, where the party in power is replaced by another party with a different, and often opposite, ideological orientation. We investigate the impact on agents’ honesty when agents perceive the future form...

Differential Maya Economies: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Study of Political Economies at the Postclassic Site of Mayapán

Acknowledgements I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Dr. Marilyn Masson, who so kindly took me under her wing during my sophomore year as a member of her Economic Foundations of Mayapán Project, not once but on four separate occasions. She taught me the value and enjoyment of archaeology in a world increasingly unconnected to its past; what it means to collaborate in a multicultural...