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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire
Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Western Europe than suggested in the historiography. The measurement of regional market potential proves strongly sensitive to …
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Raffaelli on historical progress in Smith and in Marshall
Perrotta, Cosimo - In: Marshall and the Marshallian heritage : essays in …, (pp. 61-77). 2021
Tiziano Raffaelli's pathbreaking contributions to our understanding of how Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall viewed historical progress are scattered across a number of his publications. This chapter builds on Raffaelli's discussion in two ways. First, it provides a discussion and synthesis of his...
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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London
Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870559
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“On a Mission” with Mutable Mobiles
Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008
: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions … their own mission to makethe new economy. This story of mutable mobiles is revealed in thedetailed diary entries of the …,these local facts and choices had to be made consistent with eachother and with the projected future of the economy as a whole …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870893
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Accurate Measurement and Design Standards: Consistency of Design and the Travel of ‘Facts’ Between Heterogeneous Groups
Velkar, Aashish - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Design standards are carriers and creators of facts, enabling facts about product value to travel between groups, and assisting in the creation of product value by establishing a reference or comparison against which product attributes are compared. However, when design standards are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870924
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Developing a capability list: Final Recommendationsof the Equalities Review Steering Group onMeasurement
Vizard, Polly; Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Equalities Review SteeringGroup on Measurement (CASEpaper 120) were prepared as backgroundpapers to assist in the development of … the measurement framework for theEqualities Review. The companion paper discusses the key challengesinvolved in … translating capability theory into a practical measurement tool inthe context of measuring inequality in Britain in the 21st …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354001
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Definition of equality and framework formeasurement: Final Recommendations of theEqualities Review Steering Group on Measurement
Burchardt, Tania; Vizard, Polly - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
Steering Group on Measurement(CASEpaper 121), were prepared as background papers to assist in thedevelopment of the measurement …), a measurement framework for monitoring trends ininequality, exploring the causes of inequality, and identifying possible …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354004
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Opportunity Sets and the Measurement ofInformation
Bossert, Walter - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1998
This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the problem of measuring the informationcontained in opportunity sets. In many choice situations, the items that can be selectedfrom an opportunity set (the objects of choice) do not coincide with the consequencesthey induce (the objects a...
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Remarks on the Measurement, Valuation, and Reporting of Intangible Assets
Baruch, Lev - Leonard N. Stern School of Business <New York, NY> / … - 2003
Intangible assets are both large and important. However,current financial statements provide very little informationabout these assets. Even worse, much of the information that isprovided is partial, inconsistent, and confusing, leading tosignificant costs to companies, to investors, and to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869772
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Productivity Measurement Issues in Services Industries: “Baumol’s Disease” Has Been Cured
Triplett, Jack E.; Bosworth, Barry - Brookings Institution - 2003
[...]As we documented in a longer version of this paper (Triplettand Bosworth forthcoming), labor productivity growth in theservices industries after 1995 was a broad acceleration, not justconfined to one or two industries, as has sometimes beensupposed. Using the 1977-95 period as the base, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869775