1. Guns, Butter or None of the Above: Defining State Capacity in the Long Run • Jari Eloranta, University of Helsinki; Sophy Bergenheim, University of Helsinki; Jeremy Land, University of Gothenburg.

2. Official Statistics and State Building in Nineteenth-Century Brazil: A Prehistory of the 1872 Census • Anne Hanley, Northern Illinois University.

3. Monetary Famine, Paper Money, and International Constraints on Economic Growth: The Case of Colonial Quebec • Gabriel Mathy, American University; Zara Memon, American University.