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Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern … comparing those cases with others from Europe and China's economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry … Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern …
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Introduction -- Part I The Iberian Grounds of the Early Modern Globalization of Europe -- Global Context and the Rise … of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the … most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the …
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We estimate calories available to workers' households in the USA, Belgium, Britain, France and Germany in 1890/1. We employ data from the United States Commissioner of Labor survey (see Haines, 1979) of workers in key export industries. We estimate that households in the USA, on average, had...
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Did the outbreak of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars influence technical change during the Industrial Revolution? We address this question by investigating an instance of state intervention into the market for inventions from 1793-1820: the introduction of a new proviso into British...
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Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively...
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