Publications | Cool Water Effect

Preprints

Welzel, C., S. Kruse, L. Brunkert & S. Brieger (2023). Cool Water: The Geo-Climatic Source of Western Exceptionalism. Preprint.

Welzel, C., S. Kruse, L. Brunkert & S. Brieger (2023). Supplementary Online Material (SOM) to 'Cool Water: The Geo-Climatic Source of Western Exceptionalism'. Preprint.

Publications

Silva, Manuel Santos, Amy C. Alexander, Stephan Klasen, and Christian Welzel. 2022. “The Roots of Female Emancipation: Initializing Role of Cool Water.” Journal of Comparative Economics.

Welzel, C., Stefan Kruse, Steven A. Brieger, and Lennart Brunkert (forthcoming): The Cool Water Effect. Geo-Climatic Origins of the West's Emancipatory Drive.

Welzel, C., Stefan Kruse, Steven A. Brieger, and Lennart Brunkert (forthcoming): The Cool Water Phenomenon: On the Origins of Global Psychological Variation.

Welzel, C. (2019). Putting Cool Water at the Heart of Industrial History. EU Research, Summer 2019, 48–51.

Welzel, C. (2014). Evolution, Empowerment, and Emancipation: How Societies Ascend the Utility Ladder of Freedoms. World Development, 64, 33-51.

Welzel, C. (2013). The Redirection of Civilization. In Freedom Rising. Human Empowerment and the Quest for Emancipation (pp. 335-375). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.