The ubiquity of the rentier state
Angus Maddison’s Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History is one of my favorite books (though if you are looking for economic history, Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium is underrated/underread). Maddison’s work is cited in this piece, No, Mughals didn’t loot India. They …