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"For two decades, the consensus explanation of the British Industrial Revolution has placed technological change and the supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade...
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history, and two on wage stickiness, albeit in different countries and addressing labor markets several centuries apart. What … two on wage stickiness, albeit in different countries and addressing labor markets several centuries apart. What can be …
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In the tradition of the new economic history, this collection includes seven carefully researched papers blending systematic empirical research with consideration of broader theoretical and analytical issues
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migration, 1900-1914 / Drew Keeling -- Globalization and labor market integration in late nineteenth and early twentieth century … the United States between 1900 and 1914. Finally, Gregg Huff and Giovanni Caggiano examine the integration of labor …
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Introduction / Alexander J. Field -- A Soviet quasi-market for inventions : jet propulsion, 1932-1946 / Mark Harrison -- Network quality in the early telegraph industry / Tomas Nonnenmacher -- The Spanish infrastructure stock, 18441935 / Alfonso Herranz-Lonc(c)Øan -- Have American workers...
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concludes that output grew more rapidly than population, and did so on all continents, although more rapidly in countries of … labor rather than credit markets. he explores the perennial questions of how sticky were wages and prices and whether such … stickiness played a significant casual role in the rise of unemployment. Contrary to many models that assume or assert that …
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Introduction / Alexander J. Field -- Social-overhead construction in Italys regions, 1861-1913 / Carlo Ciccarelli Stefano Fenoaltea -- Bilateral trade flows in Europe, 1857-1875 : a new dataset / Markus Lampe -- Gender, health and welfare in England and Wales since industrialisation / Bernard...
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Technological breakthroughs and productivity growth / Harald Edquist, Magnus Henrekson -- New national bank loan rate estimates, 1887-1975 / Scott A. Redenius -- The net effect of railroads on stature in the postbellum period / Ebru Guven Solakoglu -- Growth in a protected environment :...
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Amongst other European and US focussed topics, Volume 27 addresses: the macroeconomic aggregates for England, 1209-2004; capital accumulation in Spain, 1850-2000; British Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830. Notably there is also a contribution from the late William Parker , who chapter discusses historical...
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