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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669536
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The next world and the new world: Relief, migration, and the Great Irish Famine
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2018
Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is accordingly often considered the classic example of Malthusian population economics in action. However, unlike most historical famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017575
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The next world and the new world : relief, migration, and the Great Irish Famine
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2018
Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is accordingly often considered the classic example of Malthusian population economics in action. However, unlike most historical famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964325
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Urban Autonomy : Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
Gatti, Fabio - 2022
Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013405131
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Futurama. Business Forecasting and the Dynamics of Capitalism in the Interwar Period
Lenel, Laetitia - 2018
employed by American companies in the 1930s. Engaging with the current debate on the temporal order of capitalism, the article … argues that business forecasting was not only a means of stabilizing capitalism, but a factor and an indicator of a change in … the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012263130
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Futurama : business forecasting and the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period
Lenel, Laetitia - 2018
employed by American companies in the 1930s. Engaging with the current debate on the temporal order of capitalism, the article … argues that business forecasting was not only a means of stabilizing capitalism, but a factor and an indicator of a change in … the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159607
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The Communist Manifesto : what can we learn today for a country like Vietnam?
Herr, Hansjörg - 2018
functioning of capitalism. They underestimated the possibilities to regulate the capitalist system and also allowed the working … regulation with the features of capitalism analysed in the Manifesto. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011790538