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Wages and prices in early Catalan industrialisation
Martínez-Galarraga, Julio; Prat, Marc - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2014
of the spinning jenny in Catalonia. First, we supply series of real wages in Barcelona for the period 1500-1808 in line … wages created strong incentives for adopting the labour-saving spinning jenny. …
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism the Haugian Way.
Grytten, Ola H. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2012
On the basis of availabale sources the present paper seeks to map entrepreneural industrial activities the Norwegian puritan revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1824) was involved in and quantify his financial activities. It also tries to map entrepreneural activities by his followers. The paper...
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Necessities and Luxuries in Early-Modern Textile Consumption: Real Values of Worsted Says and Fine Woollens in the Sixteenth-Century Low Countries
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2008
Wee Consumer Price Index for Brabant (Antwerp region); and (2) the purchasing power of wages: i.e., the number of days …’ wages that a master mason in Antwerp would have had to spend to acquire each one of these textiles; and more particularly to … of days’ wages required to purchase that same quantity of cloth would have been: 13.725 days for a Hondschoote single say …
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The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320 - c. 1420
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013
During the hundred-year period from about 1320 to about 1420, the Florentine woollen cloth industry underwent two closely connected crises. The first crisis was the consequence, direct and indirect, of the ravages of warfare and falling population, afflicting the entire Mediterranean basin and...
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The Life of a Mariner in Eighteenth-Century Bristol: A Case Study of Higher-Value Probate Inventories
Okabe, Yoshihiko - Graduate School of Economics, Osaka University - 2013
Anyone studying the eighteenth-century probate inventories of Bristol soon notices that the largest occupation group was mariner. However, as an occupation, mariner is exceedingly difficult to define and understand. The purpose of this paper is to reveal what the job of a mariner was by...
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Real Wages and the 'Malthusian Problem' in Antwerp and South-Eastern England, 1400 - 1700: A regional comparison of levels and trends in real wages
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006
provided a comparison of prices and real wages of building craftsmen in the regions of Antwerp and south-eastern England, from … real wages for these craftsmen in Antwerp did not suffer the same deterioration as did comparable real wages in England … levels of the real wages were not shown. Most economic historians have attributed that significant fall in real wages …
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Prices and Profits in Cotton Textiles During the Industrial Revolution
Harley, C. Knick - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010
Cotton textile firms led the development of machinery-based industrialization in the Industrial Revolution.  This paper presents price and profits data extracted from the accounting records of three cotton firms between the 1770s and the 1820s.  The course of prices and profits in cotton...
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Networks of People in Specialty Production: Family Firms in the Iron and Steel Wire Industries in Spain (1870-2000)
Perez, Paloma Fernandez - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2005
Capital intensive industries in specialized niches of production have constituted solid ground for family firms in Spain, as evidenced by the experience of the iron and steel wire industries between 1870 and 2000. The embeddedness of these firms in their local and regional environments have...
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Prices and Profits in Cotton Textiles During the Industrial Revolution
Harley, C. Knick - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2010
Cotton textile firms led the development of machinery-based industrialization in the Industrial Revolution. This paper presents price and profits data extracted from the accounting records of three cotton firms between the 1770s and the 1820s. The course of prices and profits in cotton textiles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008570648
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Temporary Shocks and Persistent Effects in the Urban System: Evidence from British Cities after the U.S. Civil War
Hanlon, W. Walker - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Urban economies are often heavily reliant on a small number of dominant industries, leaving them vulnerable to negative industry-specific shocks. This paper analyzes the long-run impacts of one such event: the large, temporary, and industry-specific shock to the British cotton textile industry...
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