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Did southerners favor slavery? Inferences from an analysis of prices in New Orleans, 1805–1860
Grynaviski, Jeffrey; Munger, Michael - In: Public Choice 159 (2014) 3, pp. 341-361
about the morality or long-term viability of slavery. It is unclear, however, whether such expressions of anti-slavery … that there was a change in elite rhetoric about slavery, initiated by Whig politicians in the mid-1830s seeking a campaign … issue in the South, in which anti-slavery rhetoric became linked to attempts by abolitionists to foment slave unrest, making …
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From extreme luxury to everyday commodity Sugar in Sweden, 17th to 20th centuries
Rönnbäck, Klas - Ekonomisk Historia, Handelshögskolan - 2007
This paper will focus upon the Swedish consumption of sugar, a product that illustrates the shift from being a luxury to being a mass-consumed commodity. Very little attention has been paid to the commodity of sugar by Swedish scholars, at least concerning the period prior to the introduction of...
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Subverting the standard view of the Cape economy: Robert Ross’s cliometric contribution and the work it inspired
Fourie, Johan - Department of Economics, Fakulteit Ekonomiese en … - 2014
In the late 1980s Robert Ross and co-author Pieter van Duin reversed the widely accepted view of the Cape economy as a ‘social and economic backwater’ of widespread subsistence farming and overall poverty, scattered with small islands of relatively affluent farmers. Exploring the rich...
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Global economic crisis 2007–2010: Is it really so recent? Implications for the future from the lessons of economic history
Salavrakos, Ioannis-Dionysios - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 655-683
This paper demonstrates that the current economic crisis has its roots in the evolution of the global economy during the 1960s. The gradual increase of US debt from the 1960s accompanied by the deficit in the US trade balance due to international competition from EU, Japan, and later from China...
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Looking backwards and living forwards: the EMU and the history of monetary unions in Western Europe
Barbezat, Daniel - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 1/2, pp. 10-30
European monetary history prior to 1950 presents many attempts at international monetary coordination, but none were as bold and as far reaching as the European Monetary Union envisioned in the Delors Report of 1989 and enacted through the 1991 Treaty on the European Union in Maastricht. This...
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Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
Ruef, Martin - Princeton University Press
from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change … the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in …, survey responses, census records, and credit reports. Through a resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and …
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Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South
Ruef, Martin - Princeton University Press
from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change … the most extensive sociological treatment of the transition from slavery since W.E.B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction in …, survey responses, census records, and credit reports. Through a resolutely comparative approach, Between Slavery and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093941
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalen Innovationskultur Deutschlands - die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD, DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2003
Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence, 1880-1980
McLean, Ian W.; Mitchener, Kris J. - School of Economics, University of Adelaide - 1998
The historical analysis of US regional growth is improved by augmenting existing estimates of state personal income per capita, extending previous studies of convergence across states, and more broadly, offering an improved basis for interpreting other issues in regional development such as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552893
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Estimating the Shape of Economic Crises under Heterogeneity
Dovern, Jonas; Jannsen, Nils - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
During the ongoing financial crisis the analysis of similar historical crises has gained more and more attention among economic researchers and forecasters. Existing studies, however, do not tackle the immense heterogeneity that is present in cross-country samples in a formal and consistent way....
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