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In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar’s long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. Idescribe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, withdistinguished economists’ stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar’s goal is to show howeconomists work, but also...
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Eyam is an epicentre of Europe’s plague heritage. Every year, tens of thousands of people visit the Derbyshire village, drawn by stories of its catastrophic plague and the heroic response it elicited. The story they are told - of a self-imposed quarantine preventing disease spreading to the...
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The role of technology in the transition from premodern to modern economies in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe is among the major questions in economic history, but it is still poorly understood. A plausible explanation of premodern European technological development must account...
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This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an …
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This paper explores the location of industry in pre-World-War-I Britain using a model that takes account both of factor …
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In this paper, the influence of information costs on the integration of Northern European financial markets between ca. 1350 and 1560 is explored. The approach is based on splitting information costs into their constitutive components and on measuring one of these, i.e. the costs of transmitting...
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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extremeevents – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions ofentrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure instarting a business...
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parents of such high growth and innovation can only be academic scientists. Indeed, academic entrepreneurship in the United … dazzling example of successful scientist entrepreneurship, many other regions and universities have also had highly academic … entrepreneurship. Some of these examples are: Genentech, Google, Gatorade, Digital, Medtronic, Amgen, Biogen and Cellomics. In fact …
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“Entrepreneurs out of necessity” identified by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor survey area sizeable group across …
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that entrepreneurship has important economic value. Hence, a systematic review is provided that answers the question: What … is the contribution of entrepreneurs to the economy in comparison to non-entrepreneurs? We study the relative … group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …
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