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Interest rates, sanitation infrastructure, and mortality decline in nineteenth-century England and Wales

Chapman, Jonathan - 2021

This paper investigates whether high borrowing costs deterred investment in sanitation infrastructure in late nineteenth-century Britain. Town councils had to borrow to fund investment, with considerable variation in interest rates across towns and over time. Panel regressions, using annual data...

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Financing the commune : government spending and private capital in Siena (1200-1250)

Severgnini, Carlo Ludovico - 2025

The connection between public spending and the ambitions of urban elites is a common topic in the historiography of the late Middle Ages. However, it is still unclear how city finances and private capital interacted before the use of sophisticated financial systems of the late 13 th to early 14...

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Politics, investments and public spending in Bologna (end of 13th - first half of 14th century)

Conti, Marco - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 66 (2025) 1, pp. 21-38

Not all major Italian cities of the late Middle Ages could rely on an established and organised system of public debt like Florence, Venice, Genoa, and others. The study of one such city, Bologna, reveals that whenever the city found itself in serious financial straits, outside of ad hoc...

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South German silver, European textiles, and Venetian trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: a non-Mercantilist approach to the balance of payments problem, i...

Munro, John H. - 2006

to modern times, is Europe’s supposed ‘balance of payments’ problem in trade with the ‘East’. This supposed problem has … western Europe. This seems to be particularly true in the debate about the late-medieval ‘Great Depression’ in which some …-copper mining boom, which quintupled Europe’s silver supplies from the 1460s to the 1540s, when even cheaper supplies of silver were …

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South German silver, European textiles, and Venetian trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: a non-Mercantilist approach to the balance of payments problem, i...

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

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South German Silver, European Textiles, and Venetian Trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: A non-mercantilist approach

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

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Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering

Hillmann, Henning - 2010

Using novel quantitative historical data on 2,483 British privateering cruises, we show that state-licensed commerce raiding by merchants was not only a popular and potentially flourishing business, but also effective in harming enemy trade during the long eighteenth century (1688-1815). Why,...

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Richard III, the Tudor Myth, and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism

Lambert, Thomas - 2024

Over the last 10 years or so there has been a resurgence of interest in the English king Richard III, especially after his remains are found in 2012 after being lost or missing for centuries. Prior to this, there are many publications, reports, and documentaries alluding to a “smear”...

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Coping with Chronic Warfare. The Athenian Experience

Lyttkens, Carl Hampus; Gerding, Henrik - 2019

In Classical Athens, being at war was much more common than peace. The military expenditures were correspondingly large. The real enigmatic issue, however, is not financial but where they found the manpower needed for this policy. The number of warships (triremes) was so great that there is no...

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The Economic and Social Life in the Community of Cherso (Cres) Through the Centuries : A Foreword

Mauri, Arnaldo - 2010

Cherso (Cres in Croatian) is the largest island in the Adriatic. Placed in the northern part of this sea, namely in the Kvarner Gulf and lying off the east coast of the Istrian peninsula, Cherso today belongs to the Republic of Croatia, but for centuries this island had been a faithful and...

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