chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The early history: 1830 to 1860 -- chapter 3 The great take-off: 1860 to 1900 -- chapter 4 Growth and consolidation: 1900 to 1920 -- chapter 5 The 1920s -- chapter 6 The Depression -- chapter 7 Steel and World War II -- chapter 8 The post-war period: 1946 to...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The political economy of the early modern state -- chapter 3 The industrial revolution: a threat or a promise? -- chapter 4 Industrialization in Europe, part 1 -- chapter 5 Industrialization in Europe, part 2 -- chapter 6 Industrialization in the first...

chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part I Fiscal policy -- chapter 2 Interests: A history of tax conflicts -- chapter 3 Ideas: The theory of stabilization policy -- chapter 4 Practice: The stability of Federal government deficits -- part Part II Monetary policy -- chapter 5 The interests and...

Between c. 1550 -c. 1880, a small group of individuals ruled England and oversaw her transformation from a small country to the British Empire--and in the process they became exceedingly wealthy. Known as aristocrats, their unusual lifestyles were the antithesis of modern secular values. Today...

This paper proposes to exploit a reform in legal rules of corporate governance to identify contractual incentives from the correlation of executive pay and firm performance. In particular, we refer to a major shift in the legal and institutional environment, the reform of the German joint-stock...

Shipping was one of the most dynamic industries of the pre industrial period. The article presents detailed estimates of the growth of output and inputs of the shipping industry in the Netherlands between 1500 and 1800. These are used to study the development of productivity in two ways: by...