Abstract The current Covid-19 pandemic is rapidly calling into question the functioning models of both the economy and society at large that until recently were taken for granted. This challenge is urging scholars and research centres to ponder the perspectives of the globalization process which...

The recorded history of human civilisation is replete with instances of recessions that have brought financial despair upon the people. Pandemic induced recessions are different because the adverse shock to the workings of the economy is purely biological rather than economic or financial. But...

The whole world is jolted with the attack of coronavirus. Even few weeks ago, people thought, the virus would destabilize the international supply chains only, which at best would shut factories in China. Though, initially the whole world witnessed the sufferings of china, now the whole world is...

An influential literature in early modern economic history uses “distance from” as an instrumental or a control variable. I show that “distance from Wittenberg” and “distance from Mainz,” two prominent instruments for the adoption of Protestantism and printing technology, have...

The objective of this work is to carry out a historical investigation about the economy of Bulgaria during the period between 1946 and 1990. Throughout this span, the country studied had claimed socialism as its social system. Because of this, the focus of analysis will be on the key features...

Despite the variety of indicators describing the economy of each country, a generalized qualitative description of the economy can be performed using the concept of the “economic image” of a certain country, indicating a key subsystem from among the traditionally distinguished tiers of the...

We analyse a new dataset of 483 manufacturing firms in 1881 either that employed at least 1000 or had done so a decade earlier. Among these firms the majority were partnerships, but public corporations attained higher capital/ labour ratios and stronger employment growth than other business...

ABSTRACT: Since the 1970s, famines have been widely invoked as natural experiments in research into the long-term impact of foetal exposure to nutritional shocks. That research has produced compelling evidence for a robust link between foetal exposure and the odds of developing schizophrenia....

Although cross section relationships are often taken to indicate causation, and especially the important impact of economic growth on many social phenomena, they may, in fact, merely reflect historical experience, that is, similar leader-follower country patterns for variables that are causally...

This paper focuses on the use of silver as a monetary standard in Mexico during approximately the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. During this period, several events occurred in the market for silver that affected those countries...