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The Anti-Red Shift -- to the Dark Side: Changes in the Colour Patterns and Market Values of Flemish Luxury Woollens, 1300 - 1550

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

purchasing power of industrial wages) that only the very rich could afford to buy these textiles: that the principal markets were …

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The Expulsion of the Jews from France in 1306: a Modern Fiscal Analysis

Mechoulan, Stéphane F - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

In 1306, at the peak of a severe financial and monetary crisis, Philippe the Fair expelled the Jews from his kingdom, declared himself creditor of their debts, seized their property and auctioned it off. Was this a clever move, financially speaking? Did Philippe gain more, by killing the goose...

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The Usury Doctrine and Urban Public Finances in Late-Medieval Flanders: Annuities, Excise Taxes, and Income Transfers from the Poor to the Rich

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007

The objectives of this paper are three-fold. The first is to rebut Charles Kindlebergerï¿½s famous dictum that usury ï¿½belongs less to economic history than to the history of ideasï¿½; and in particular to demonstrate that the resuscitation of the anti-usury campaign from the early...

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The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320 - c. 1420

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

for Florence: for its luxury woollens industry soon became late-medieval Italy's single most important export …-eminent leaders - those in the southern Low Countries (Flanders and Brabant); and in Mediterranean markets of this era, Florentine … reorientation to very narrow luxury markets, with very restricted demand; and especially the complete dependence on imported, tax …

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Real Wages and the 'Malthusian Problem' in Antwerp and South-Eastern England, 1400 - 1700: A regional comparison of levels and trends in real wages

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

In a path-breaking but largely overlooked study, published in a festchrift thirty years ago (1975), Herman Van der Wee provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from 1400 to 1700. To do so, he constructed a composite...

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Three Centuries of Luxury Textile Consumption in the Low Countries and England, 1330 - 1570: New Methodologies for Estimating Changes in Real Values

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008

This study is a much revised and extended version of two previously issued working papers on the production, sale, and consumption of woollen textiles in England and the Low Countries, from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. It focuses on the hey-day of the production and international...

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Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008

If mankind’s three basic necessities have always been food, clothing, and shelter, whose production, trade, and consumption have rightly been a primary focus of economists and economic historians for many generations, we may ask this vital question: how do they distinguish between necessities...

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Usury, Calvinism, and Credit in Protestant England: from the Sixteenth Century to the Industrial Revolution

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011

This study analyses the impact of Protestantism on interest rates in England from the 16th century to the Industrial Revolution. One of many myths about the usury doctrine - the prohibition against demanding anything above the principal in a loan (mutuum) - is that it ceased to be observed in...

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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 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

Coinage debasement in medieval and early modern Europe remains an ill-understood topic; and indeed an often cited article ("The Debasement Puzzle": Velde and Weber, 1996) sought to demonstrate that coinage debasements were both impractical and economically futile. The purpose of this study is to...

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