We argue that the system of seigneurial tenure used in the province of Quebec until the mid-nineteenth centurya system which allowed significant market power in the establishment of plants, factories and mills, combined with restrictions on the mobility of the labor force within each seigneurial...

The early accumulation of capital and the pioneering of capitalist enterprise have been undertaken in many countries by heterodox religious communities. The role of the Old Believers (further OB) in the early development of Russian industry and trade was noted by many economic historians...

Introduction: structural analysis and the process of economic development / Jonas Ljungberg -- How it all began : on structural periods / Olle Krantz and Carl-Axel Nilsson -- Identifying and modelling cycles and long waves in economic time series / Fredrik N.G. Andersson -- Development blocks...