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intensive forms of industry. Hamilton`s analyses of price and wage data for 16th- and 17th-century Spain, France, and England …; and that early-modern England had experienced the greatest degree of such profit inflation. Such a contrast in their … national economic experiences helps to explain, in Hamiltonś view, why Spain subsequently declined, while England became the …
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The paper's thesis is that the chief causes for the well-known `industrial crisis' of the traditional English textile towns during the period c.1290 - c.1340 was not the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition, as is generally supposed, but rather a far-reaching economic...
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14th- and 15th- century Flanders and England, and in particular Flemish data on minting gold nobles that were coined as …
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locations for cloth manufacturing in later-medieval England and the Low Countries. From the 11th to the mid-14th century, when … view further contend that in late thirteenth-century England a new rural industry had displaced a centuries … following propositions: (1) that England's traditional urban industry had declined, abruptly from the 1290s, chiefly because of …
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-medieval England stimulated legal innovations to provide the foundations for negotiability in international financial instruments …. Though late-medieval England was not 'backward' in the senses expounded by so many earlier historians, her financial … monetary policies, which played a major role in the fall of England's wool trade, once her most lucrative source of revenue …
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This paper is a case study about investor behaviour of the government of Berne on capital markets in the 18th century, focussing mainly on London. Economic theory about principal-agent problems and portfolio administration will be used to analyse quantitative and qualitative data from government...
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real wages for building craftsmen and their journeymen-labourers in southern England, Flanders, and Brabant, in the late …. Using the working papers for Phelps Brown & Hopkins’ very famous price and real-wage indexes for England (1264-1954), which … either England or Flanders, but was instead followed by a quarter century of falling real wages, because rampant inflation …
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explain the cross-sectional differences in marital fertility asreported in the 1911 census of England and Wales. Szreter …. -- Fertility transition ; 1911 Census of England and Wales …
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