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Speed under sail during the early industrial revolution
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011860234
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Speed under sail, 1750-1850
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2014
We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the … 1850. Against the consensus, dating back to North (1958, 1968), that the technology of sailing ships was static during this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507660
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Speed under Sail, 1750-1850
Kelly, Morgan; Gráda, Cormac Ó - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2014
We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the … 1850. Against the consensus, dating back to North (1958, 1968), that the technology of sailing ships was static during this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010776466
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Speed Under Sail, During the Early Industrial Revolution (c.1750-1850)
O'Grada, Cormac; Kelly, Morgan - 2017
We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping by using a large database of daily log entries from ships of the … 1850. Against the consensus, dating back to North (1958, 1968), that the technology of sailing ships was static during this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014147341
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Markets and Famines : Some Evidence from India and Ireland.
O Grade, C - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1997
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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005646802
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LOCATION PATTERNS OF CREATIVE CAPITAL AND REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN SPAIN
KERIMOGLU, Ebru; KARAHASAN, B. Can - In: Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 14 (2014) 1, pp. 115-132
creative capital and its impact on regional differences in Spain. Our preliminary set of results indicates that between 1996 … and 2004 there is a general tendency regarding the increase in the spatial dependency of the creative capital in Spain … more importantly its local spillover is affecting the regional income gaps in Spain even once other factors such as human …
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Speed under sail, 1750-1830
Kelly, Morgan; Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2017
We measure technological progress in oceanic shipping directly by using a large database of daily log entries from … from 1750 to 1850. Against the consensus among economic (but not maritime) historians that the technology of sailing … allowed a greater area of sail to be set safely in a given wind. By contrast, looking at every voyage between the Netherlands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665419
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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 modest, both generated and was sustained by a demographic regime that entailed relatively high wages, and by an increasing endowment of human capital in the form of a relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010426561
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Maritime Labour : Contributions to the History of Work at Sea, 1500-2000
Gorski, Richard - 2007
This is a collection of soundings into various aspects of the history of maritime labor from the close of the Middle … empirical reconstructions of the lifeways of peoples long rendered silent in the writing of history. … nineteenth-century Newfoundland -- The Shipping Federation and the free labour movement: A comparative study of waterfront and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042457