Hilton L. Root

George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government

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  • George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government

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1.

Three Asian Dictators: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Political Virtue, Resource Curse, Winning Coalition, South East Asia

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The Impact of Global Demographic Changes on the International Security Environment

US Institute of Peace International Security Series, Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall, eds., , GMU School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 2009-07
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014
Jack A. Goldstone, Hilton L. Root and Monty G. Marshall
George Mason University, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government and George Mason University, School of Public Policy
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Population, Security, Globalization, Economic Growth, Youth, Conflict, Aging, Urbanization, Migration

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The US Foreign Aid Policy to the Middle East: The Political Economy of US Assistance to the MENA Region

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Hilton L. Root, Yan Li and Kanishka Balasuriya
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government, Independent and Independent
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Middle East and North African Region (MENA), US Foreign Aid, Economic Development

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The Religious Origins of State Capacity in Europe and China

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The Religious Origins of State Capacity in Europe and China

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 16 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 20 Oct 2023
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Cultural Persistence, Institutions, Networks, Economic Organizations, Market Structures, Informal Constraints, Church and State, China and the West

Religion and the Great Divergence of East and West: The Persistent Effects of Networks of Church and State in the History of China and Europe

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 14 Dec 2022
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Institutions, networks, Economic Organizations, Market Structures, Informal Constraints, Comparison of China and the West

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Religion and the Great Divergence of East and West: The Persistent Effects of Networks of Church and State in the Economic History of China and Europe

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Religion and economic history, institutional and cultural change, divergence of China and the West, informal constraints and markets, formal and informal sectors, structural change in the economy, trust and economic development

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Complex Networks and Evolutionary Selection in Political Economy

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Dec 2021 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2023
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Political Economy, Complex Systems, Institutions, Networks, Cultural Evolution

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The Hypocrisy Trap and US Soft Power

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Hilton L. Root and Yan Li
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government and Independent
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US Foreign Aid, US Global Leadership, Hypocrisy Trap

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20. The Policy Conundrum of Financial Market Complexity

GMU School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 2011-10
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 04 Feb 2011 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2012
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Financial Crisis, Financial Market Complexity, Volatility, Governance Regulation Democratic Capitalism

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The Diffusion of Innovation as a Property of Network Connectivity in the Economic Organization of China and the West

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 May 2021 Last Revised: 06 Sep 2022
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Political Economy, Networks, Comparative Development, Economic Structure, Cultural Persistence, Social Innovation, Europe and China

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The Feudal Origins of the Western Legal Tradition

2020, Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (Ordo), 70(1): 3-20.
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 02 Apr 2020
Cameron Harwick and Hilton L. Root
SUNY College at Brockport and George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Legal origins, Economic history, Institutions, Norms, European history

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The Evolutionary Theory of Globalization: Interaction, Co-Evolution and Specialization As Sources of Diversity in Highly Interconnected Societies

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 18 Jan 2016
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Globalization, Complex Adaptive Systems, International Development, International Political Economy

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Unintended Order and Self-Organization in the Evolutionary Social Theory of Friedrich Hayek

Forthcoming. In Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought: Searching for the Organic Origins of the Economy. Edited by Gábor István Bíró. Routledge, Chapter 8.
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Jul 2021
Hilton L. Root
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Can Pakistan Have Creative Cities? An Agent Based Modeling Approach with Preliminary Application to Karachi

Malik, Ammar Anees, Andrew T. Crooks, and Hilton L. Root. 2014. “Can Pakistan Have Creative Cities? An Agent Based Modeling Approach with Preliminary Application to Karachi” 13. Pakistan Strategy Support Program (PSSP) Working Papers. , GMU School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 2014-05
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2014
Ammar A Malik, Andrew Crooks and Hilton L. Root
The Urban Institute, George Mason University and George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government
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Pakistan, Land-Use, Transportation, Segregation, Economic Growth, Urban Planning, Urban Development

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Complex Networks and Evolutionary Selection in Political Economy 1

This paper has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming addition of the Journal of Economic Issues. 
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 02 Jul 2024
Hilton L. Root and William Hicks
George Mason University - Schar School of Policy and Government and Imperial College London
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