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Field, Alexander J. (contributor); … - 2004

concludes that output grew more rapidly than population, and did so on all continents, although more rapidly in countries of … labor rather than credit markets. he explores the perennial questions of how sticky were wages and prices and whether such … stickiness played a significant casual role in the rise of unemployment. Contrary to many models that assume or assert that …

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Research in economic history : Vol. 26

Field, Alexander J. (contributor); … - 2008

Introduction / Alexander J. Field -- Social-overhead construction in Italys regions, 1861-1913 / Carlo Ciccarelli Stefano Fenoaltea -- Bilateral trade flows in Europe, 1857-1875 : a new dataset / Markus Lampe -- Gender, health and welfare in England and Wales since industrialisation / Bernard...

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Research in economic history : Vol. 24

Field, Alexander J. (contributor); … - 2006

Technological breakthroughs and productivity growth / Harald Edquist, Magnus Henrekson -- New national bank loan rate estimates, 1887-1975 / Scott A. Redenius -- The net effect of railroads on stature in the postbellum period / Ebru Guven Solakoglu -- Growth in a protected environment :...

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Research in economic history

Field, Alexander J. (ed.); Clark, Gregory (ed.); … - 2010

Amongst other European and US focussed topics, Volume 27 addresses: the macroeconomic aggregates for England, 1209-2004; capital accumulation in Spain, 1850-2000; British Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830. Notably there is also a contribution from the late William Parker , who chapter discusses historical...

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The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective

Temin, Peter - 1997

This paper replicates a classic study of the American business elite. The older study done a half-century ago, reported the composition of business leaders a century ago. I have" drawn a sample of business leaders today to discover how much the composition of the" American business elite has...

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The Great Depression

Temin, Peter - 1994

This history of the Great Depression was prepared for The Cambridge Economic History of the United States. It describes real and imagined causes of the Depression, bank failures and deflation, the Fed and the gold standard, the start of recovery, the first New Deal, and the second New Deal. I...

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The Cambridge history of "capitalism"

Temin, Peter - 2014

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The Cambridge History of "Capitalism"

Temin, Peter - 2014

This review essay of the two-volume Cambridge History of Capitalism (2014), edited by Larry Neal and Jeffrey G. Williamson, is divided into three parts. First, I describe three chapters from the second volume that I recommend for all economists to add depth to their understanding of the world...

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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect

Temin, Peter - 2014

I argue in this paper for more interaction between economic history and economic development. Both subfields study economic development; the difference is that economic history focuses on high-wage countries while economic development focuses on low-wage economies. My argument is based on recent...

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The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT

Temin, Peter - 2013

This paper recalls the unity of economics and history at MIT before the Second World War, and their divergence thereafter. Economic history at MIT reached its peak in the 1970s with three teachers of the subject to graduates and undergraduates alike. It declined until economic history vanished...

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