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The Pattern of Trade in Seventeenth-Century Mughal India: Towards an Economic Explanation

Lally, Jagjeet - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

trades, and convincing explanations of the persistence of the Indo-Central Asian trade (for example) despite the growing Indo …-European trade from the seventeenth-century. The customs-union model usefully approximates this trading-situation (i.e. the Europeans … the possibility for trade-creation (i.e. due to substitution between otherwise regionally-specialised production …

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Trade, Convergence and Globalisation: the dynamics of change in the international income distribution, 1950-1998

Epstein, Philip; Howlett, Peter; Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

liberal market democracies and the inducement held out to other economies was that by embracing free trade they too might … per capita incomes across economies and the spatial advance of free trade. For many economists and historians the two are … linked: the reduction of trade barriers in the post-war world ushered in a new era of globalisation and that globalisation in …

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After the Great Debasement, 1544-51: Did Gresham’s Law Apply?

Li, Ling-Fan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

the disappearance of good money over this period has provided any solid quantitative assessment of the effectiveness of …

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The Effects Of The 1925 Portuguese Bank Note Crisis

Wigan, Henry - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004

bank through which he concealed over £3m in counterfeit money.[...] …

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Measuring Instruments in Economics and the Velocity of Money

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006

measure the velocity of money ranging from the 17th to the 20th centuries. These historical experiences suggest that numerical …

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Time is Money: A Re-assessment of the Passenger Social Savings From Victorian British Railways

Leunig, Timothy - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

saving money to saving time came when railway technology stopped simply fulfilling existing demand more cheaply (travel for …

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Interest subsidies on student loans: A better class of drain

Barr, Nicholas A.; Johnston, Alison - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2010

This paper discusses the problems that arise from interest subsidies in the UK system of student loans; systems in other countries, for example Australia and New Zealand, face similar problems. The topic appears to be narrow and technical, and of significance only to the most nerdy of...

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Time and income poverty

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

[...]The research on which this report is based used both qualitative and quantitativemethods. In the first phase, a small number of semi-structured interviews were carriedout with people who were juggling work and family responsibilities, and who feltunder both time and income pressure. These...

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Working or Shirking? A closer look at MPs' Expenses and Parliamentary Attendance

Besley, Timothy; Larcinese, Valentino - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2005

cast in parliament as a crudemeasure of value for money. We use the results to reflect on twoviews of the motivation of MPs …

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Tasting freedom: Happiness, religion and economictransition

Lelkes, Orsolya - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2002

individuals’ self-reported well-being.Controlling for personal characteristics of the respondents, money is aless important source …

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