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English 'Backwardness' and Financial Innovations in Commerce with the Low Countries, 14th to 16th centuries

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1998

-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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Technology and the Era of the Mass Army

Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano; Scheve, Kenneth; … - Economics, Markets, Institutions, IMT Lucca Institute … - 2012

We provide the first systematic examination of the determinants of military mobilization over the very long run. Focusing on a sample of thirteen great powers between 1600 and 2000 we argue that changes in transport and communications technology were the single most important factor in both...

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Understanding the South China Sea: An explorative cultural analysis

Evers, Hans-Dieter - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The South China Sea has attracted considerable attention among politicians, journalists and scholars since it has become a contested maritime space. Most works concentrate on conflicts and negotiations to resolve the ensuing issues. In this paper, a cultural theory will be applied to stress the...

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Scenario of Viability Gap Funding (VGF) Concept in Indian Infrastructure Projects

Maniar, Hiren - In: Journal of Infrastructure Development 5 (2013) 1, pp. 33-65

Infrastructure is a key area since it provides the main thrust and impetus area in the growth of a developing nation like India. A major area of concern for sustaining the real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in India has been the lack of adequate infrastructure, which can support the growth...

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The Global Warming Alarm : Forecasts from the Structured Analogies Method

Green, Kesten C. - 2015

When the beach patrol raises the alarm that a shark has been sighted we know what to do, but how should we respond to an alarm that is based on predictions of what will happen 100 years from now and the person raising the alarm tells us we must make great sacrifices now to avoid the predicted...

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History of River Management in South Asia : Economic and Environmental Perspective

Shamsul Arefin, Tareq Muhammad - 2020

Human civilization began in South Asia at ancient period because rivers flown in this part was essential for human settlement. From then, human settlements in this part are always river-centric. From the initiation to at present, this river-centric civilization evolves because of its...

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Research and Science Today No.2

MUREŞAN, Adriana Rodica; CRISTESCU, Cătălin; RUSU, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...

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The Value-Based Narrative of Food as a Commons. A Content Analysis of Academic Papers with Historical Insights

Vivero Pol, Jose Luis - 2016

Food systems primary goal is to nourish human beings. And yet, the current industrial food system, with its profit-maximising ethos, is not achieving that goal despite producing food in excess. On the contrary, this system is the main driver of Earth transformation. Actually, the way we produce,...

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When Things Were Falling Apart : Tocqueville, Fei Xiaotong and the Agrarian Causes of the Chinese Revolution

Xu, Xiaohong; Png, Ivan P. L.; Chu, Junhong; Chen, Yeh-Ning - 2019

A fundamental question that has concerned social scientists since Barrington Moore is the political transformations that accompanied agrarian societies’ transitions to modern economy. One paradigmatic case is the peasant-based Communist revolution in China, the causes of which have been the...

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Supporting or Deteriorating : Local Cultural Forces, Mobility Expectations and Investment Preferences based on the changes in the selection system of the Qing Dynasty

Lv, Xinyi; Chen, Xiaoyu - 2023

Based on the perspective of central-territory resource allocation, this paper will investigate the influence of the strength of local cultural power on the preference of central-territory resource allocation and the degree of responsiveness to the central government under the shift of identity...

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