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Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as exerting an important influence on the pre-industrial European economies. These writers were especially interested in the economic effects of the Reformation on the economic...
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substitutability of fixed factors in production, and the extent to which innovation is biased towards land-saving technologies. This … addition, I find evidence that denser populations – and hence higher land scarcity – induced innovation towards land …
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This contribution examines the major features of UAE’s economy, its factors of strengths, undelying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...
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This work has as objective to approach the theme “National Innovation Systems in Angola and Mozambique”. We concluded … knowledge about others cultures that can help on promotion of innovation, and these government should to promote the enlarging … of investigators in R&D for also promotion of innovation on divers areas such health, education, etc. And both government …
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structured to adapt to innovation’s gale of creative destruction. Meanwhile, centralized states, even when democratic, have come …-run technological innovation. In the following article, this wisdom is tested using data on international patent activity, scientific …
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technological development. For this reason we rely on the final results of a research project on women in innovation, technology and …
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The article responds to Daniele and Malanima’s harsh criticism (Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro? Il Mezzogiorno fra storia e pubblicistica, Rivista di Storia Economica, 2014, n. 1) of my last book (Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro, Il Mulino, 2013), about the reconstruction of regional...
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One of the most common myths in European economic history, and indeed in Economics itself, is that the Black Death of 1347-48, followed by other waves of bubonic plague, led to an abrupt rise in real wages, for both agricultural labourers and urban artisans – one that led to the so-called...
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The traditional and almost universal method of expressing real wages is by index numbers, according to the formula: RWI = NWI/CPI: i.e., the real wage is the quotient of the nominal (money) wage index divided by the consumer price index, all employing a common base period (here: 1451-75 = 100)....
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The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. The proposed causal pathway is that the printing press permitted the ideas of the...
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