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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...

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Consumption, Social Capital, and the ‘Industrious Revolution’ in Early Modern Germany

Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2009

This paper uses evidence from German-speaking central Europe to address open questions about the Consumer and Industrious Revolutions. Did they happen outside the early-developing, North Atlantic economies? Were they shaped by the “social capital” of traditional institutions? How were they...

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Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

Akçomak, I. Semih; Webbink, Dinand; ter Weel, Bas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This research provides an explanation for high literacy, economic growth and societal developments in the Netherlands in the period before the Dutch Republic. We establish a link between the Brethren of the Common Life (BCL), a religious community founded by Geert Groote in the city of Deventer...

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Why Did the Netherlands Develop so Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life

Weel, Bas ter; Akcomak, Semih; Webbink, Dinand - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2013

In many Dutch cities there are Geert Groote schools. This is no coincidence, because Geert Groote's (1340-1384) ideas form the foundation of modern education in the Netherlands and many other countries. Much less known is that his investments, and those of his followers, have put the...

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An anthropometric study of inequality and social segregation in a castilian city. Zamora, 1840-1936

García, Ricardo Hernández; Ventoso, Javier Vicente; … - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2009

this paper proposes several indicators for income distribution derived from the height of individuals. From the study of these indicators, we can conclude that the economic backwardness that zamora suffered led a further deterioration of living standards compared to other more economically...

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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Suesse, Marvin; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2019

factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for …

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Rural Transformation, Inequality, and the Origins of Microfinance

Suesse, Marvin - 2019

factors shaping the market entry of rural microfinance institutions across time and space. We provide empirical evidence for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857765

The Life Cycle of a Microfinance Institution : An Economic Analysis of the Irish Loan Funds

Hollis, Aidan; Sweetman, Arthur - 2002

Ireland's loan funds were a long-lived, self-sustaining, large-scale microfinance organization that made millions of … banking system and seen as effective in relieving poverty. In their second century they became ossified, in part because of … competition with commercial banks. The loan funds provide an example of sustainable microfinance under harsh economic conditions …

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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism the Haugian Way

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2012

On the basis of available sources the present paper seeks to map entrepreneurial industrial activities the Norwegian puritan revivalist Hans Nielsen Hauge (1771-1824) was involved in and quantify his financial activities. It also tries to map entrepreneurial activities by his followers. The...

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Growth in Public Finances as Tool for Control : Norwegian Development 1850-1950

Grytten, Ola Honningdal - 2014

By drawing on information from public accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth century the present paper aims at mapping the development of key financial indicators for the Norwegian central government sector. It concludes that growth in the size of this sector often, but clearly not always,...

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