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Baghdad was a wonder of the world in the year 800 while London was an economic backwater. By 1800, London was the largest city in the world while Arab cities languished. Recent research attributes this ‘trading places’ to institutional differences: Ar
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From Baghdad to London: Lessons from one thousand years of urbanisation in Europe and the Arab world
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