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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 … beinterested in their history at all.... …
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history, the narrative is largely a fiction; produced not by doctors, but by poets, writers, and local historians. Eyam … the creation of heritage and history. This paper examines the process by which this narrative emerged and was repeatedly …
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-century Europe is among the major questions in economic history, but it is still poorly understood. A plausible explanation of … history of the basic cognitive limitations to how technical knowledge can be expressed, processed, and transmitted have yet to …
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This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an improved dataset and with modern time-series econometrics. We find a slowdown in TFP growth between 1850 and 1870, after which it stabilized at about 1.1%. An analysis of...
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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 endowment and also of new economic geography influences. Broadly speaking, the pattern of industrial location in this period was quite persistent and regional specialization...
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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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“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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