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.
