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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365510
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Resilience, adaptability and transformability: Danish butter factories in the face of coal shortages
Teives Henriques, Sofia; Sharp, Paul; Tsoukli, Xanthi; … - 2021
was almost entirely dependent on imports of coal, and where a long coastline made imports, largely from the UK, cheap and … available. Towards the end of the First World War, however, and well into the 1920s, coal imports were cut off or difficult to … peat fields in the wake of the coal shortage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192118
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Resilience, adaptability and transformability : Danish butter factories in the face of coal shortages
Teives Henriques, Sofia; Sharp, Paul; Tsoukli, Xanthi; … - 2021
was almost entirely dependent on imports of coal, and where a long coastline made imports, largely from the UK, cheap and … available. Towards the end of the First World War, however, and well into the 1920s, coal imports were cut off or difficult to … peat fields in the wake of the coal shortage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821147
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Community Characteristics and Demographic Development: Three Württemberg Communities, 1558 - 1914
Ogilvie, S.; Küpker, M.; Maegraith, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009
Demographic behaviour is influenced not just by attributes of individuals but also by characteristics of the communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition’ is analyzing the longterm determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990846
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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015
Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2022
coal and oil on long-run economic growth, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 regions over the … last century. We show that an "oil invasion" in the early 1960s turned regional coal abundance from a blessing into a curse … key mechanism behind this reversal of fortune. Not only did former coal regions fail to accumulate sufficient levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088348
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The Wheels of Change : Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization
Mokyr, Joel; Sarid, Assaf; van der Beek, Karine - 2020
This paper examines the effect of the early adoption of technology on the evolution of human capital and on industrialization, in the context of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. It shows that wrights, a group of highly skilled mechanical craftsmen, who specialized in water-powered machinery in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103183
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Was Gerschenkron right? Bulgarian agricultural growth during the Interwar period in light of modern development economics
Kopsidis, Michael; Ivanov, Martin - 2015
The classical view of Bulgaria's failed industrialization prior to the Second World War was established by Alexander Gerschenkron. According to his interpretation, an inherently backward small peasant agriculture and well-organized peasantry not only retarded growth in agriculture but obstructed...
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The Great Moderation of Grain Price Volatility: Market Integration vs. Climate Change, Germany, 1650–1790
Albers, Hakon; Pfister, Ulrich; Uebele, Martin - 2018
In Malthusian economies, crop shortages could be a matter of life and death. The development of regional and national markets for grain held the potential to provide insurance against the demographic consequences of local crop failure. Weather shocks that are reflected in price data, however,...
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Grain Prices in Pre-industrial Germany, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Albers, Hakon; Pfister, Ulrich - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 1, pp. 66-90
We present the largest homogenous dataset of grain prices for four major types of grain for pre-industrial Germany covering 70 cities with a total of 259 time series. This article describes the sources and the methodology followed to create calendar-year-based price series in grams of silver per...
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Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
Leonard, Carol Scott; Nazarov, Zafar; Borodkin, Leonid I.; … - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 93-104
This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty...
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