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Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the 'Nouvelles Draperies'

Munro, John - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2002

This paper seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...

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Spanish Merino Wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: An Industrial Transformation in the Late-Medieval Low Countries

Munro, John H. A. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2005

This paper, a much revised version of an earlier paper (with different tables), seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the nouvelles draperies chose to use them, and why their resort...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704802

Hanseatic Commerce in Textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages:

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

era when the ï¿½draperiesï¿½ or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries and England had become increasingly … the Low Countries and England to re-orient their export-oriented cloth production more and more towards high-priced ultra … the Flemish composite price index: 1351-1550; (10) Prices of various Brabantine woollen cloths, compared to the Brabant …

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Wool and Wool-Based Textiles in the West European Economy, c.800 - 1500: Innovations and Traditions in Textile Products, Technology, and Industrial Organisation

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

, classed under the general headings of woollens, worsteds, and semi-worsted 'stuffs'. They ranged in quality and price from … relatively cheap -- those that a master craftsmen could buy with two week's wages -- to the ultra-luxurious woollen scarlets … and amongst the various types of woollens, worsteds, and semi-worsted stuffs. To understand the marketing of these …

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The West European Woollen Industries and their Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

woollen textile ind ustries, in France, the Low Countries, England, Italy, and Iberia (Catalonia and Aragon), and of their … transaction costs, and new continental trade routes, based on South Germany, the Rhineland, and the Brabant Fairs that favoured …

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How and Why Economies Develop and Grow : Lessons from Preindustrial Europe and China

Kohn, Meir - 2010

Why are we rich and others poor? What is preventing the less-developed countries from catching up with the more developed? How did we become rich? Underlying these questions are more fundamental ones: What is the nature of economic progress? What are its causes? I seek the answers to these...

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Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the Later Middle Ages: Changing Trends in Cloth Prices and Markets, 1290 - 1550

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

This paper analyses the major changes in textile products, production costs, prices, and market orientations during the era when the 'draperies' or cloth industries of the late-medieval Low Countries had become increasingly dependent upon northern markets and the German Hanseatic League as the...

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Water is Security

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2009

Reasonable and equitable water resource decision-making is at the core of good governance around the world. Sustained water collaboration is an antidote to foreign relations disintegration. Lack of water quality and quantity policies can lead to water insecurity for everyone, yet bureaucratic...

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The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with the Mediterranean Basin, 1200-1600: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comparative Advantages in Overland and Maritime Trade Routes

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1999

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom in European economic history that long-distance maritime transport was always more cost-effective than overland trade routes. Thus the majority of historians in the past century have attributed the rapid decline of the medieval Champagne Fairs,...

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Emerging Law Addressing Climate Change and Water

Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015

The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196020

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