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Economic consequences of state failure; Legal capacity, regulatory activity, and market integration in Poland, 1505-1772

Malinowski, Mikołaj - 2018

With use of innovative proxies and new annual data, I demonstrate that relatively high legal capacity and regulatory activity of the early-modern Polish parliament was positively associated with deeper commodity market integration. Conversely, the lack of effective law-making, caused by the...

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"Clause and effect": Invention and state intervention during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

Billington, Stephen D.; Lane, Joe - 2023

Did the outbreak of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars influence technical change during the Industrial Revolution? We address this question by investigating an instance of state intervention into the market for inventions from 1793-1820: the introduction of a new proviso into British...

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"This Monstrous Scheme": Die Idee eines nationalen Wollregisters im Großbritannien des 18. Jahrhunderts und die Grenzen des Merkantilismus

Ziegler, Hannes - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 1, pp. 6-34

The project of a national register of wool was the fever dream of mercantilism in Great Britain during the eighteenth century. For more than half a century, major parts of the English woolen traders and clothiers thereby attempted to lend administrative teeth to the ban on the exportation of...

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The political economy of agricultural protection : Sweden 1887

Lehmann, Sibylle H.; Volckart, Oliver - 2010

We analyse the Swedish general elections that took place in spring and autumn 1887. Our aim is to discover which groups of voters were responsible for the severe losses that the supporters of free trade suffered in the second of these contests, and that allowed the protectionists to gain the...

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What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?

Edwards, Jeremy - 2011

The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...

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Mercantilist Warfare

Conti, Thomas - 2017

Warfare is an important and common subject in discussions on mercantilism. However, the idea of a mercantilist (type of) warfare rarely appears in the specialized literature. This article begins with a historiographical review of the uses of mercantilist warfare. It identifies mercantilist...

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Do Legal Differences Matter? A Comparison of German Patent Law Regimes Before 1877

Donges, Alexander - 2018

In this paper, we give an overview of the differences in German patent legislations between 1815 and 1876. German patent laws differed in particular with regard to the application and approval system, the treatment of foreign applicants, and patent fees. Differences in the former two categories...

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Law, Finance and the First Corporations

Harris, Ron - 2009

crucial junction in the history of business organizations and stock markets. Yet, while the formation of the VOC led to the … of the two companies. It will explain the distinct English and Dutch paths to the creation of share markets through these … markets and of Rajan and Zingales that focus on market infrastructure and on the power of social and interest groups. The …

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Why Did Corporations Patent in Spain? Several Historical Inquiries

Sáiz, Patricio - 2019

This paper explores how international corporations used the Spanish patent system in the late nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century in order to discover what the actual effects of its apparent weakness were. The research clarifies the origins and evolution of...

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Patents of Introduction and the Spanish Innovation System

Sáiz, Patricio - 2019

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