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Fejezetek a korai magyar privatizációk és államosítások történetéből, 17-18. század

Péter, Mihályi - 2015

case study presents the largest-ever land privatization in Hungarian history, when the territories retaken by the Habsburgs … the present renationalization wave in Hungary, if we do not take into account the poisonous historical legacy of the … similar means, even if the general historical conditions are entirely different; and the same notions - like privatization or …

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The economic effects of the protestant reformation : testing the Weber hypothesis in the German lands

Cantoni, Davide - 2013

Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300-1900, I find no...

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Religious tolerance as engine of innovation

Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2017

We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...

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Religion and the Great Divergence of East and West : The Persistent Effects of Networks of Church and State in the Economic History of China and Europe

Root, Hilton L. - 2022

Networks of Church and State that originated in premodern times played an important role as conduits for the transmission of cultural values that have endured into the present and set the economic history of China apart from that of Europe. The imprints of those networks, which preceded the...

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Language, Knowledge, and Growth : Evidence from Early Modern Europe

Binzel, Christine; Link, Andreas; Ramachandran, Rajesh - 2023

This paper documents a language change in printing from Latin to the vernaculars, the spoken tongues, in the immediate aftermath of the Protestant Reformation of 1517. As a result, the share of vernacular titles in Europe rose from around 30% in 1500 to almost 60% in 1600. With the increased use...

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Between rack rents and paternalism : economic behaviour and the lease market in Westphalia, with a particular focus on the 19th century

Bracht, Johannes; Scholten-Buschhoff, Friederike - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 17-53

Departing from research on Westphalian leases between 1600 and 1900 the paper discusses the lease market of and price determination on three Westphalian estates. While economic history approaches suppose that leases can be seen as market relations and are therefore useful indicators to measure...

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State ownership and nationalization in energy sector : the case of Kazakhstan's oil industry

Orazgaliyev, Serik - 2019

some instances, energy-exporting countries conducted nationalization of their resources, while in other cases they … nationalization policies in Kazakhstan's oil and gas industry in the post-Soviet period. Although the full nationalization of the …

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Land reform in Moldova : how viable are emerging peasant farms? ; an assessment referring to a recent World Bank study

Petrick, Martin - 2000

Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are...

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Rational Resistance to Land Privatization : The Response of Rural Producers to Agrarian Reforms in Pre- and Post-Soviet Russia

Scott Leonard, Carol - 2003

A UK-based economist and historian adapts the Fernandez-Rodrik model to demonstrate how rural opposition to land reform in present-day Russia is a consequence of individually rational decisions by members of former state and collective farms regarding whether to support further land reform or...

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Land Reform in Tajikistan : Economic Effects on Private Farms

Caccavale, Oscar Maria - 2010

Land reform in Tajikistan is one of the main tools for economic development and food security. Agricultural economy is under transition from a planned to a market system through collective farm reorganisation. Aim of the paper is the evaluation of farm performances in terms of size. The paper...

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