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Moral facts and scientific fiction: 19th century theological reactions to Darwinism in Germany

Kleeberg, Bernhard - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005

biblical accounts of man and nature. Whether they considered the truths of science and religion as corresponding, complementary …’s monistic evolutionism that explicitly claimed to be science as well as a new religion. Furthermore, romantic and idealistic … reconcile with religion. Though literal interpretations of the scriptural account of nature became more or less abandoned by the …

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Quakers, coercion and pre-modern growth: why friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early Atlantic trade expansion

Sahle, Esther - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2014

During the late seventeenth century the Atlantic trade experienced unprecedented growth. The New Institutional Economists attribute this to the emergence of new institutions for property rights enforcement. During this period, Quakers emerged as the region’s most prominent trading community....

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Sailing away from Malthus: intercontinental trade and European economic growth, 1500-1800

Palma, Nuno - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2014

What was the contribution of intercontinental trade to the development of the European early modern economies? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused on static measures of the weight of trade in the aggregate economy at a given point in time, or on the comparison of the income of...

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Longevity and the rise of the West: lifespans of the European elite, 800-1800

Cummins, Neil - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2014

I analyse the age at death of 121,524 European nobles from 800 to 1800. Longevity began increasing long before 1800 and the Industrial Revolution, with marked increases around 1400 and again around 1650. Declines in violence contributed to some of this increase, but the majority must reflect...

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Scientific charity in Victorian London. Claims and achievements of the Charity Organisation Society, 1869-1890

Humphreys, Robert - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 1993

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Apprenticeship and training in premodern England

Wallis, Patrick - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2007

This paper re-examines the economics of premodern apprenticeship in England. I present new data showing that a high proportion of apprenticeships in seventeenth century London ended before the term of service was finished. I then propose a new account of how training costs and repayments were...

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Re-estimating Austrian GDP, 1870-1913: methods and sources

Schulze, Max-Stephan - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 1997

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The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size and market structure, 1890-1927

Bakker, Gerben - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2003

In the 1900s, the European film industry exported throughout the world, at times supplying half the US market. By 1920, however, European films had virtually disappeared from America, and had become marginal in Europe. Theory on sunk costs and market structure suggests that an escalation of sunk...

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Principle-agent problems in the French slave trade: the case of Rochelais Armateurs and their agents, 1763-1792

Forestier, Albane - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005

La Rochelle, the fourth largest slaving port in France in the eighteenth-century, is used as a case study in the application of agency theory to long-distance trade. This analysis explores an area not accounted for in the literature on French commercial practices. Being broadly couched in a New...

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Precocious British industrialization: a general equilibrium perspective

Crafts, Nicholas; Knick Harley, C. - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2002

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