Paul Sharp is professor of business and economics at the Historical Economics and Development Group, University of Southern Denmark and co-author of 'An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present' and 'A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry'.

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The potential dangers of immigration ‘point systems’: Lessons from the history of Danish American communities in the US
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- Economic history 
- Migration

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Getting to Denmark: The role of elites for development
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- Development 
- Economic history

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Pre-reformation roots of the protestant ethic: Evidence of a nine centuries-old belief in the virtues of hard work stimulating economic growth
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- Economic history
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Why globalisation might have started in the eighteenth century
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- Politics and economics