This paper explores the automation of the supply of financial services on the British High Street. Its aim is to provide an historical perspective to highlight the longevity of organisational change in the financial sector and to emphasise its remarkable continuity: UK clearing banks and...

To contribute to understanding of information economies of daily life, this paper explores over the past millennium given names of a large number of persons. Analysts have long both condemned and praised mass media as a source of common culture, national unity, or shared symbolic experiences....

In this essay I argue that it is the way institutions evolve that shapes long run economic performance. By institutions I mean formal rules--political and economic-- and informal constraints--such as conventions and norms of behavior as well as the characteristics of enforcement of both. To be...

The argument of this essay is that productivity increases result from both improvements in human organization and from technological developments. Indeed it is probably true that the former is as important as the latter in economic growth. In the following sections I first lay out the...

Le jeudi 25 septembre 2003, lors de l’ouverture du Congrès des experts- comptables au Palais des expositions de la Porte Maillot à Paris, le Premier Ministre, Jean-Pierre RAFFARIN, aurait-il par son annonce mis à nouveau le feu aux poudres ? La hache de guerre est-elle de nouveau déterrée...

Le dispositif juridique français, fidèle au modèle de la décision publique, place l’expert dans une situation subalterne par rapport au Juge qui le choisit, lui fixe sa mission, lui impartit des délais et finalement le rémunère, et à qui il doit apporter un éclairage strictement...

The precursors of money, along with language, enabled early modern humans to solve problems of cooperation that other animals cannot -- including problems of reciprocal altruism, kin altruism, and the mitigation of aggression. These precursors shared with non-fiat currencies very specific...

Can developing countries enhance credibility with international markets by adopting a hard currency peg? In this paper we review the hypothesis that adherence to the gold standard facilitated the access of peripheral countries to European capital markets in the first era of financial...

ResumenEl artículo es una aproximación a la compresión del proceso social colombiano del siglo XIX, centradoen la configuración de un orden social teniendo como actores un grupo de poder en particular:los notables. El enfoque guía del análisis es la sociología histórica tomando la...

The paper offers a simple test of spatial integration in food markets during famines. It applies the test to two data sets; one for India between the 1860s and the 1910s, the other for Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s.