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Denmark and Russia: What can we learn from the historical comparison of two great Arctic agricultural empires?
Korchmina, Elena; Sharp, Paul - 2020
We propose that the "historically relevant" comparison of the Danish and Russian Empires from the early eighteenth … century until the First World War presents a useful starting point for a promising research agenda. We motivate the comparison … be investigated, with a particular focus on agriculture, due to its importance to both Danish and Russian economic …
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Harvest, railway transportation and banking services to the agriculture in the Central Black Earth Region of the Russian Empire in the late 19 th century
Salomatina, Sofya A.; Ivakin, Vladislav Y. - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 119-136
banking services to agriculture producers and traders. Statistical analysis of this data disproves the prevailing historical … unfavorable conditions in the agricultural and banking sectors. Thus, banking services in Russia at the end of the 19th century … were provided to not just industrial and stock markets customers. In those regions dominated by agriculture, services …
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Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
Leonard, Carol Scott; Nazarov, Zafar; Borodkin, Leonid I.; … - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 93-104
This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the …
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017
affected both labor coercion and the adaption of labor-saving technologies within the agriculture sector along the lines …
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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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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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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Actividades y estrategias económicas de la burguesía alicantina en los años cuarenta del siglo XIX
Marín, Pedro Díaz - In: Investigaciones de Historia Económica (IHE) Journal of … 5 (2009), pp. 137-170
agriculture and free trade. …
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City and Countryside Revisited. Comparative rent movements in London and the South-East, 1580-1914
Ormrod, David; Gibson, James M.; Lyne, Owen - 2011
Economic historians have traditionally argued that urban growth in England was driven primarily by prior improvements in agricultural supply in the two centuries before the industrial revolution. Recent revisionist scholarship by writers such as Jan Luiten van Zanden and Robert Allen has...
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Commons For Sale. Economic And Institutional Change In Nineteenth Century Northern Spain
Berasain, José Miguel Lana - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2006
This study examines a facet of institutional change in 19th Century Spain. Empirical analysis of a zone in the Ebro valley confirms that the process of selling commons prior to the 1855 Ley de Desamortización (Disentailment Law) was of great significance. It evaluates the nature of the changes...
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