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A Historical Reconstruction of Capital and Labour in Italy, 1861-2013
Giordano, Claire - 2017
In this paper we provide a detailed explanation of the methodology underlying the construction of a new labour and capital stock dataset for Italy since 1861. The existing seminal paper (Rossi, Sorgato and Toniolo 1993) only covered the period 1911-1990 for labour and 1890-1990 for capital;...
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Institutions and Evolution of Capitalism in Geoff Hodgson’s Work (Introduction)
Gagliardi, Francesca - 2019
This article is the introductory chapter to a festschrift in honour of Geoff Hodgson. In work spanning four decades, Geoff Hodgson has made many path-breaking contributions to institutional economics, evolutionary economics, economic methodology, the history of economic thought and social theory...
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Los paradigmas de la Economía y el Neoliberalismo Económico (The Paradigms of Economics and Economic Neoliberalism)
Reuben Soto, Sergio - 2019
Spanish Abstract: Esta reflexión fue escrita para cuestionar el fallo de la Sala Constitucional de Costa Rica sobre la constitucionalidad de un proyecto de ley denominado Ley de Fortalecimiento de las Finanzas Públicas.1 El fallo se fundamentó en algunos estudios económicos del Ministerio de...
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Markets for land, labor, and capital in Northern Italy and the Low Countries, twelfth to seventeenth centuries
van Bavel, Bas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Comparative analysis of the markets for land, labor, and capital in north-central Italy and the Low Countries in the late Middle Ages and the early modern period reveals that urbanization in itself was not the crucial variable in the quality and effect of developing factor markets. More...
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Looking for growth imperatives under capitalism : money, wage labour, and market exchange
Cahen-Fourot, Louison - 2022 - This version: 16/07/2022
capitalism: market exchange and wage labour. Growth imperatives are emerging properties of these two social relations. I develop … a critique of steadystate economics and underline the ontological difference between a zero-growth capitalism and a post …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013387297
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Keynes' denial of conflict : why The General Theory is a misleading guide to capitalism and stagnation
Palley, Thomas I. - 2023
its denial of the conflictual nature of capitalism. There is need to understand Keynes' technical contributions regarding … preeminent monetary theorist. However, owing to his denial of conflict, he had a flawed view of capitalism which is why … Democracy. Contrary to conventional wisdom, his view of capitalism is supportive of Neoliberalism and Keynes can be viewed as a …
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The English cotton spinning industry, 1780–1840, as revealed in the columns of the London Gazette
Solar, Peter M; Lyons, John S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We investigate the early development of English cotton spinning by analyzing about 700 bankruptcies and 1300 dissolutions of partnership reported in the London Gazette, 1770–1840. The data show two temporal cycles, peaking in the early to mid-1800s and in the later 1820s, near the ends of...
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669488
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New Area- and Population-based Geographic Crosswalks for U.S. Counties and Congressional Districts, 1790–2020
Ferrara, Andreas; Testa, Patrick A.; Zhou, Liyang - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
In applied historical research, geographic units often differ in level of aggregation across datasets. One solution is to use crosswalks that associate factors located within one geographic unit to another, based on their relative areas. We develop an alternative approach based on relative...
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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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