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Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit Of Power with Profit. The Management Of Britain’s National Debt, 1756-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

satisfactory historical narrative) the reasons why the United Kingdom evolved between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the … inaugurated the modern debate with the publication of The Financial Revolution in England some four decades ago.That seminal book …

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Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: Analyses, Perceptions and Conceptions Of Britain’s Precocious Transition to Europe’s First Industrial Society

Riello, Giorgio; O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

The Industrial Revolution continues to be analysed by economic historians deploying the conceptual vocabularies of … their aspirations to recover the meanings of the Revolution for those who lived through its turmoil and for ‘witnesses’ from … reconstructions of the Revolution are only apparently in conflict and above all that a contextualised analysis of observations of …

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Fiscal Exceptionalism: Great Britain and its European Rivals From Civil War to Triumph at Trafalgar and Waterloo

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001

Historical narratives which place the Glorious Revolution at the beginning and Parliament near the centre of …

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Fathers Under Fire: The Revolution in Child SupportEnforcement in the USA

Garfinkel, Irwin; McLanahan, Sara; Meyer, Daniel; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998

In the shadow of rising divorce and non-marital birth rates, nearly twothirdsof all American children today will live apart from at least one oftheir parents, usually the father. Clearly this astonishing proportion ofnon-resident fathers has serious implications for the economic,employment, and...

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Funding Systems for Doctors, Schools and Social Landlords

Glennerster, Howard; Hills, John; Travers, Tony - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000

In the past decade there has been a minor revolution in how local services are funded.Those delivering the services now …

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Pirates, Polities and Companies: Global Politics on the Konkan Littoral, c.1690-1756

Elliott, Derek L. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper examines pre-colonial interaction among polities along the Konkan coast, from Surat to Goa, during the long half-century c.1680-1756. Specifically it uses the dynasty of the Angrias, who were deemed pirates by the European powers but were actually an integral part of the Maratha...

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Reforming pensions: Principles, analytical errors and policy directions

Barr, Nicholas A.; Diamond, Peter A. - London School of Economics and Political Science; … - 2008

This article, based on two books (Barr and Diamond 2008, forthcoming), sets out a series of principles for pension design rooted in economic theory: pension systems have multiple objectives, analysis should consider the pension system as a whole, analysis should be framed in a second-best...

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Reforming pensions: Tales from China, Chile and elsewhere

Barr, Nicholas A. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This Report is about Reforming pensions in China, Chile and elsewhere.

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SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM IN CHINA: ISSUES AND OPTIONS

Jiange, Li - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

This report is the first policy study of the China Economic Research and AdvisoryProgramme, in which eminent economists from China and abroad have participated. Thereport focuses on the problems faced by China in the reform of its social security system.On the basis of economic principles and...

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US Poverty Studies and Poverty Measurement:The past twenty-five years

Glennerster, Howard - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

This paper discusses the contribution made by American social scientists to thestudy of poverty in the past twenty five years. It has three parts. The firstconcentrates on the measurement of poverty and the fact that the US povertyline remained unchanged in that period despite its increasingly...

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