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"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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In this paper we first trace the changing nature of banking, currency and debt crises from the last century to the present. Each type of crisis has transmogrified in the presence of official intervention and the creation of a safety net. A similar pattern is observed for international rescue...
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