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Spanish Merino wools and the Nouvelles Draperies: an industrial transformation in the late-medieval Low Countries

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This article seeks to explain why Spanish merino wools arrived so late in the Low Countries, only from the 1420s, why initially only those cloth producers known as the 'nouvelles draperies' chose to use them, and why their resort to such merino wools allowed at least some of them to escape the...

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South German silver, European textiles, and Venetian trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: a non-Mercantilist approach to the balance of payments problem, i...

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

, via new transcontinental trading routes from Venice through Germany to the Brabant Fairs, based on a tripod of English … an alternative explanation: how England’s new Levant Company and the English cloth industries so successfully gained a …

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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 … change and economic growth stemmed from such human capital rather than Boserupian forces. They were the product of England …

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Productivity Growth and Convergence in Agriculture and Manufacturing

Martin, Will J. - 2016

The growth of agricultural productivity is widely believed to be low. But this study finds the productivity growth rate in agriculture to be higher than that in manufacturing, both on average and for groups of countries at different stages of development. This suggests that a large agricultural...

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Productivity Growth in Latin America during the Twentieth Century

Astorga, Pablo; Bergés, Ame R.; Fitzgerald, Valpy - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 2003

Analysis of new comparable series on output and employment between 1900 and 2000 for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela indicates that productivity growth was significantly higher and less volatile during the middle decades of the century than in the opening and closing...

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Productivity Growth in Latin America during the Twentieth Century

Fitzgerald, Valpy; Astorga, Pablo - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003

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Path Dependence and the Origins of Cotton Textile Manufacturing in New England

Rosenbloom, Joshua L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

During the first half of of the nineteenth century the United States emerged as a major producer of cotton textiles. This paper argues that the expansion of domestic textile production is best understood as a path- dependent process that was initiated by the proetction provided by the Embargo...

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After the War Boom: Reconversion on the U.S. Pacific Coast, 1943-49

Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

During the Second World War, the American Pacific Coast experienced a tremendous economic boom fueled by disproportionately large flows of military spending. Even before the conflict's end, fears spread that the region's postwar economy would not provide sufficient jobs for its greatly enlarged...

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Hog Round Marketing, Seed Quality, and Government Policy: Institutional Change in U.S. Cotton Production, 1920-1960

Olmstead, Alan L.; Rhode, Paul W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003

Between 1928 and 1960 U.S. cotton production witnessed a revolution with average yields roughly tripling while the quality of the crop increased significantly. This paper analyzes the key institutional and scientific developments that facilitated the revolution in biological technologies,...

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Wage-Stickiness, Monetary Changes, and Real Incomes in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1450: Did Money Really Matter?

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2000

provide evidence that the MRP of various kinds of labour, in England and the cross-Channel Low Countries (Flanders), did not … countries. For England, the cost-of-living index is measured by the well known Phelps Brown & Hopkins 'basket of consumables … inflationary rise in prices that both countries endured for almost 30 years after the Black Death. In England, furthermore, where …

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