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The next world and the new world : relief, migration, and the Great Irish Famine
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2018
Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is accordingly often considered the classic example of Malthusian population economics in action. However, unlike most historical famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest...
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De l’usage social aux pratiques marchandes de l’argent. Une brève histoire des origines du microcrédit social
PASTUREAU, Guillaume - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2013
Le Mont-de-Piété est à l’origine du microcrédit social. Il s’oppose au dogme économique de l’Eglise, qui refuse et combat le commerce de l’argent. En prêtant à intérêt des petites sommes aux populations pauvres, le Mont-de-Piété participe à un double phénomène. Il met au...
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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...
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Urban Autonomy : Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
Gatti, Fabio - 2022
Urban governance has been considered a key feature in the political and economic development in Europe in the medieval and early modern times. This paper aims to explore the different institutional settings that characterized the community organization in the Kingdom of Naples, with a particular...
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Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro? Il Mezzogiorno fra storia e pubblicistica
Daniele, Vittorio; Malanima, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The recent work by E. Felice, Perché il Sud è rimasto indietro, il Mulino, Bologna, 2013, is rather a pamphlet than a book of economic history. In the present article, we discuss both the statistical series of regional GDP from 1871 until 2001 worked out by Felice (section 1), and the...
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Futurama. Business Forecasting and the Dynamics of Capitalism in the Interwar Period
Lenel, Laetitia - 2018
employed by American companies in the 1930s. Engaging with the current debate on the temporal order of capitalism, the article … argues that business forecasting was not only a means of stabilizing capitalism, but a factor and an indicator of a change in … the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period. …
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Futurama : business forecasting and the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period
Lenel, Laetitia - 2018
employed by American companies in the 1930s. Engaging with the current debate on the temporal order of capitalism, the article … argues that business forecasting was not only a means of stabilizing capitalism, but a factor and an indicator of a change in … the dynamics of capitalism in the interwar period. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159607
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World-System Analysis as a Basis of a Textbook on Economic History
K. Fursov. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 11 (2013)
(On the book by G. D. Gloveli "Economic History: Textbook for B.A. Students. Advanced Course ") The article deals with the problem of the world-system analysis as a methodological basis for writing a textbook on world economic history for universities. An attempt is made to formulate what a...
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The Applicability of Modern Economics to Forms of Capitalism in Antiquity : Some Theoretical Considerations and Textual Evidence
Schefold, Bertram - 2017
The applicability of modern economic conception to forms of capitalism in antiquity has been controversial at least … and economists. I shall try to contribute by means of a critical assessment of Max Weber's texts on capitalism (not modern … capitalism!) in antiquity and by using some textual evidence, primarily taken from Plato's Nomoi and Xenophon, in order to …
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Challenging the Empirical Contribution of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century
Magness, Phillip - 2015
main historical claims about global “capitalism” in the 20th century. Taken together, these problems suggest that Piketty …
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