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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historic city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083731
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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), … - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historic city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904669
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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic …, alongside temporal variation in the availability of coal-powered technologies, to quantify the effect of coal availability on … historical city population sizes. Since we suspect that our coal measure could be endogenous, we use a geologically derived …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969269
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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010365510
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Annual Estimates of Swedish GDP in 1720-1800
Edvinsson, Rodney - Ratioinstitutet - 2005
For the period 1800 onwards, annual figures over GDP and GDP per capita for Sweden have been presented in different studies. For the 18th century no such annual series exist. The aim of this paper is to present annual data on GDP and GDP per capita in volume values for Sweden for the whole...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419163
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Resilience, adaptability and transformability: Danish butter factories in the face of coal shortages
Teives Henriques, Sofia; Sharp, Paul; Tsoukli, Xanthi; … - 2021
was almost entirely dependent on imports of coal, and where a long coastline made imports, largely from the UK, cheap and … available. Towards the end of the First World War, however, and well into the 1920s, coal imports were cut off or difficult to … peat fields in the wake of the coal shortage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192118
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Resilience, adaptability and transformability : Danish butter factories in the face of coal shortages
Teives Henriques, Sofia; Sharp, Paul; Tsoukli, Xanthi; … - 2021
was almost entirely dependent on imports of coal, and where a long coastline made imports, largely from the UK, cheap and … available. Towards the end of the First World War, however, and well into the 1920s, coal imports were cut off or difficult to … peat fields in the wake of the coal shortage. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012821147
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Community Characteristics and Demographic Development: Three Württemberg Communities, 1558 - 1914
Ogilvie, S.; Küpker, M.; Maegraith, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009
Demographic behaviour is influenced not just by attributes of individuals but also by characteristics of the communities in which those individuals live. A project on ‘Economy, Gender, and Social Capital in the German Demographic Transition’ is analyzing the longterm determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004990846
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Fickle fossils : economic growth, coal and the European oil invasion, 1900-2015
Fritzsche, Miriam; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2022
coal and oil on long-run economic growth, exploiting variation at the level of European NUTS-2 and NUTS-3 regions over the … last century. We show that an "oil invasion" in the early 1960s turned regional coal abundance from a blessing into a curse … key mechanism behind this reversal of fortune. Not only did former coal regions fail to accumulate sufficient levels of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088348
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The Wheels of Change : Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization
Mokyr, Joel; Sarid, Assaf; van der Beek, Karine - 2020
This paper examines the effect of the early adoption of technology on the evolution of human capital and on industrialization, in the context of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. It shows that wrights, a group of highly skilled mechanical craftsmen, who specialized in water-powered machinery in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014103183