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The Canton of Berne as an investor on the London capital market in the 18th century

Altorfer, Stefan - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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Prices, wages, and prospects for "profit inflation"in England, Brabant, and Spain, 1501 - 1670 : a comparative analysis

Munro, John H. A. (contributor) - 2002 - [Electronic resource]

This paper re-examines Earl Hamilton`s famous 1929 thesis on "Profit Inflation"and the birth of modern industrial capitalism: namely, that the inflationary forces of the Price Revolution era produced a widening gap between prices and wages, thus providing industrial entrepreneurs with windfall...

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English "backwardness" and financial innovations in commerce with the Low Countries, 14th to 16th centuries

Munro, John H. A. (contributor) - 1998 - [Electronic resource]

Inspired by Gerschenkron's thesis, this paper contends that conditions of institutional 'backwardness' in late-medieval England stimulated legal innovations to provide the foundations for negotiability in international financial instruments. Though late-medieval England was not 'backward' in the...

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Living standards and inequality in the Industrial Revolution : evidence from the height of University of Edinburgh students in the 1830s

Blum, Matthias; McLaughlin, Eoin - 2019

Trends in living standards during the Industrial Revolution is a core debate in economic history. Studies using anthropometric records from institutional sources have found downward trends in living standards during the first half of the nineteenth century. This paper contributes to this...

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Ready for revolution? : the English economy before 1800

Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014

Sustained economic growth in England can be traced back to the early seventeenth century. That earlier growth, albeit modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively...

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Directed technical change and the British industrial revolution

Stern, David I.; Pezzey, John C. V.; Lu, YingYing - 2020

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Economic growth during the last millennium : a quantitative perspective for the British industrial revolution

Snooks, Graeme D. - 1990

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Six centuries of British economic growth : a time-serie perspective

Crafts, Nicholas; Mills, Terence C. - 2016

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What made Great Britain so great? : from the fiscal-military state to the first industrial revolution

Roulleau-Pasdeloup, Jordan - 2016

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Roots of the Industrial Revolution

Kelly, Morgan; Mokyr, Joel; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2015

We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 counties of England … between 1760 and 1830. Against the widespread view that high wages and cheap coal drove industrialization, we find that … industrialization was restricted to low wage areas, while energy availability (coal or water) had little impact Instead we find that …

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