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‘Separating the Roots of the Chrysanthemum’: Nishihara Kamezō and the Abortive China Loans, 1917-18
Schiltz, Michael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In the period between 1917 and 1918, a series of mysterious loans negotiated between Japanese middleman Nishihara Kamezō 西原亀三 and the government of warlord Duan Qirui 段祺瑞 amounted to the fabulous amount of ¥145,000,000. Although reporting about these loans at the time was...
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El Estado y el desarrollo de la energía nuclear en España, c. 1950-1985
Torre, Joseba De la; Rubio, Mar - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2014
Tres décadas después de la decisión gubernamental de paralizar y replantear el programa atómico español que se había diseñado en los años del desarrollismo, la controversia permanece abierta. Pese a su relevancia, la historiografía económica de la energía nuclear está tan sólo en...
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Malta and the Nineteenth Century Grain Trade: British free trade in a microcosm of Empire?
Sharp, Paul - Økonomisk Institut, Københavns Universitet - 2010
It is often assumed that Britain’s colonies followed the British doctrine of free trade in the second half of the nineteenth century. Malta, which became a British colony in 1814, did indeed become an early free trader. However, she failed to liberalize the grain trade, even when the mother...
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Malta and the Nineteenth Century Grain Trade : British Free Trade in a Microcosm of Empire?
Sharp, Paul Richard - 2010
It is often assumed that Britain’s colonies followed the British doctrine of free trade in the second half of the nineteenth century. Malta, which became a British colony in 1814, did indeed become an early free trader. However, she failed to liberalize the grain trade, even when the mother...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199064
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New Dynamics of Great-Power Energy Politics in South-Eastern Europe : The EU Versus the US and Russia?
Deak, Andras; Szabo, John; Weiner, Csaba - 2022
South-Eastern European (SEE) countries are typically keen to maintain the status quo in their energy systems, generally characterized by underinvestment, high coal share and utility affordability needs. Their energy mixes have historically been determined by external factors, currently mainly...
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Textiles as Articles of Consumption in Flemish Towns, 1330 - 1575
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1998
, splicing this Flemish commodity-price index to a similar index for Brabant constructed by Herman Van der Wee, for the 16th …
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The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns, c.1290 - c.1330
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 1998
The paper's thesis is that the chief causes for the well-known `industrial crisis' of the traditional English textile towns during the period c.1290 - c.1340 was not the emergence of supposedly superior, lower-cost rural competition, as is generally supposed, but rather a far-reaching economic...
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100 Years of Tariff Protection in Australia
Llyod, Peter - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 2007
This paper presents time series of tariff rates in Australia from the time of Federation. As a preliminary to the construction of economy-wide series, it constructs series for three broadly representative goods throughout the 100 years; passenger motor vehicles, blankets and beer. It then...
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The Rise, Expansion, and Decline of the Italian Wool-Based Textile Industries, 1100-1730: a study in international competition, transaction costs, and comparative advantage
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011
centuries, in competition with their major northern rivals, in the Low Countries and England, who fought for market dominance …-weight (unfulled), generally coarser and cheaper fabrics that were either full worsteds (cheap, coarse, long-stapled wools) or serges … an almost insuperable cost advantage over all foreign woollen manufacturers. But England's comparative advantage in its …
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The transitions discourse in the ecological modernisation of the Netherlands
Smith, Adrian; Kern, Florian - Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU), School … - 2007
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