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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530812
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009384831
This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123872
This paper describes the industrial development of Europe to 1600. The conventional history of industrial development sees technological progress as its primary cause. However, this paper argues that the source of rising productivity was not new technology but the reorganization of production in...
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How important was coal to the Industrial Revolution? Despite the huge growth of output, and the grip of coal and steam … on the popular image of the Industrial Revolution, recent cliometric accounts have assumed coal mining mattered little to … the Industrial Revolution. In contrast both E. A. Wrigley and Kenneth Pomeranz have made coal central to the story. This …
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There has been a widespread displacement of coal by natural gas as space heating and cooking technology in Turkey in …
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volatility of carbon emissions, it is not surprising that crude oil and coal have recently become a very important research topic …. For the USA, daily spot and futures prices are available for crude oil and coal, but there are no daily spot or futures … prices for carbon emissions. For the EU, there are no daily spot prices for coal or carbon emissions, but there are daily …
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