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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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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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The Jesuits as knowledge brokers between Europe and China (1582-1773): shaping European views of the Middle Kingdom
Millar, Ashley E. - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2007
Europe in the sixteenth and most of the seventeenth century was engulfed in a wave of Sinophilia. However, by the eighteenth century a dramatic shift in the popular view of China in Europe occurred and Sinophobic writings began to dominate. The primary scholarly argument about the causes behind...
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Business culture and entrepreneurship in the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-1864
Gekas, Sakis - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005
This paper explores the emergence of a business culture among merchants and entrepreneurs in the Ionian Islands during the period of British rule (1815-1864). New forms of business organisation (the joint-stock company), and novel commercial practices, such as advertising, represent examples of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884771