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Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2001

The water-mill, though known in the Roman Empire from the second century BCE, did not come to enjoy any widespread use until the 4 th or 5 th centuries CE, and then chiefly in the West, which was then experiencing not only a rapid decline in the supply of slaves, but also widespread...

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The Technology and Economics of Coinage Debasements in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: with special reference to the Low Countries and England

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2012

, and did not discount them for deficiencies in weight and fineness, except for those merchants dealing with gold coins in …

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Gold, Guilds, and Government: The Impact of Monetary and Labour Policies on the Flemish Cloth Industry, 1390-1435

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

in gold coins as well as in silver coins, with a fixed bimetallic ratio. When the duke's grandson, Philip the Good … gold coins, the Kortrijk fullers then demanded to be paid in gold; and with the drapers' refusal and a sharp rise in the …

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Coinage and Monetary Policies in Burgundian Flanders during the late-medieval 'Bullion Famines',. 1384 - 1482

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

This paper seeks to answer two questions: were the coinage debasements in Burgundian Flanders (1384-1482) undertaken principally as monetary or fiscal policies; and were they beneficial or harmful? In a recent monograph, Sargent and Velde (Big Problem of Small Change: 2002) contend that monetary...

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South German Silver, European Textiles, and Venetian Trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: A non-mercantilist approach

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

same problem: namely, innovations in both mechanical and chemical engineering that produced the South German silver-copper … arriving from the Spanish Americas. (3) That South German silver-copper mining boom, controlled by German merchant bankers who …

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Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the 'Nouvelles Draperies'

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

gold bullion. Not until the 1470s did the Burgundians succeed in having these bullionist ordinances revoked. Meanwhile the …

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The Monetary Origins of the Price Revolution' Before the Influx of Spanish-American Treasure: the South German Silver-Copper Trades, Merchant-Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1...

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1999

This paper seeks to provide a new and chiefly monetary explanation for the origins of the sixteenth-century era of sustained inflation (c.1520 - c.1640) commonly known as the Price Revolution'; and in particular it provides an answer to the question: not, as traditionally posed, why did the...

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Warfare, Liquidity Crises, and Coinage Debasements in Burgundian Flanders, 1384 - 1482: Monetary or Fiscal Remedies?

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

, of either the gold or silver coinages, from 1497 to 1686. But they had the luxury of alternative revenues from taxes on …

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The Coinages and Monetary Policies of Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547): Contrasts between Defensive and Aggressive Debasements

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2010

The renown or infamy of Henry VIII's Great Debasement (1542 - 1553), which the government of his successor, Edward VI, continued for another six years after his death, has unfairly obscured his earlier and far more modest coinage changes and public-spirited monetary policies. Furthermore,...

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The One Child Policy and Family Formation in Urban China

Anderson, Gordon; Leo, Teng Wah - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2009

marital matching and family size decisions are examined. A simple General Equilibrium model demonstrates how constraints on … marital output on the quantity of children dimension raises the marginal benefit of increased positive assortative matching … prediction of intensified positive assortative matching was examined using Distributional Overlap and Stochastic Dominance Tests …

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