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Two stories, one fate: Age-heaping and literacy in Spain, 1877-1930

Tapia, Francisco J. Beltrán; Díez-Minguela, Alfonso; … - 2018

This study looks at human capital in Spain during the early stages of modern economic growth. In order to do so, we have assembled a new dataset on ageheaping and literacy in Spain for both men and women between 1877 and 1930 based on six population censuses with information for 49 provinces....

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Denmark and Russia: What can we learn from the historical comparison of two great Arctic agricultural empires?

Korchmina, Elena; Sharp, Paul - 2020

We propose that the "historically relevant" comparison of the Danish and Russian Empires from the early eighteenth century until the First World War presents a useful starting point for a promising research agenda. We motivate the comparison, noting that the two empires enjoyed striking...

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An institutional approach to the decline of the Ottoman Empire

Evrensel, Ayse Y.; Minx, Tiffany - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-16

This paper examines the selected Ottoman institutions during the so-called rise (fourteenth through sixteenth centuries) and identifies the institutional characteristics that may have led to the eventual fall of the Empire in 1918. We propose three criteria based on which the Ottoman...

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The next world and the new world: Relief, migration, and the Great Irish Famine

Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2018

Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is accordingly often considered the classic example of Malthusian population economics in action. However, unlike most historical famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest...

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Futurama. Business Forecasting and the Dynamics of Capitalism in the Interwar Period

Lenel, Laetitia - 2018

employed by American companies in the 1930s. Engaging with the current debate on the temporal order of capitalism, the article … argues that business forecasting was not only a means of stabilizing capitalism, but a factor and an indicator of a change in … the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period. …

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Introduction to an alternative history of money

Wray, L. Randall - 2012

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Quantifying trade from Renaissance merchant letters

Gatti, Fabio - 2024

Medieval and Early-Modern business correspondence between European companies constitutes a rich source of economic, business, and trade information in that the writing of letters was the very instrument through which merchants ordered and organized the shipments of goods, and performed financial...

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Global Height Trends and the Determinants of Anthropometric Welfare, 1810s - 1980s

Blum, Matthias; Baten, Jörg - 2010

The aim of our study is to include all the information on male stature which has been estimated in previous research. 152 countries can be taken into account. Height estimates will be presented on a decadal basis. We study the development in each world regions. When the first era of...

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Zur Neubestimmung von Geschichte und Theoriegeschichte in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Ko-evolution von Wirtschaftsbeobachtung und Wirtschaftswirklichkeit

Dopfer, Kurt - 2008

Economic History and the History of Economic Thought haven been relegated increasingly from the teaching and research curricula of economics in recent years. The paper starts off arguing that this trend is due to the mechanistic ontology of mainstream economics, and it continues setting out an...

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The spinning jenny and the industrial revolution: A reappraisal

Gragnolati, Ugo; Moschella, Daniele; Pugliese, Emanuele - 2010

Was the adoption of the spinning jenny profitable only in England? No. The present work finds that the jenny was profitable also in France. Such result contrasts recent findings on the topic by revising basic computations on the profitability of the spinning jenny.

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