Search Results - subject:"Local studies"

Reimagining local studies in Devon : Reclaiming the local community’s published heritage in an age of austerity

Maxted, Ian - In: Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication 68 (2019) 8/9, pp. 703-711

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect that government austerity policies has had on local studies … in Devon and suggest a possible alternative means of maintaining local studies’ collections. Design …/methodology/approach This paper presents an historical survey of local studies provision in the county since the nineteenth century and outlines …

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Can We Rehabilitate the Guilds? A Sceptical Re-Appraisal

Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007

This paper examines recent attempts to rehabilitate pre-modern craft guilds as efficient economic institutions. Contrary to rehabilitation views, craft guilds adversely affected quality, skills, and innovation. Guild rent-seeking imposed deadweight losses on the economy and generated no...

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Turning Qualitative into Quantitative Evidence: A Well-Used Method Made Explicit

Carus A.W.; Ogilvie, S. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2005

Many historians now reject quantitative methods as inappropriate to understanding past societies. It is argued here, however, that no sharp distinction between qualitative and quantitative concepts can be drawn, as almost any concept used to describe a past society is implicitly quantitative....

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