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Zhang, Yaguang - 2015

We discuss business cycles in ancient China. Data on Ancient China business cycles are sparse and incomplete and so our discussion is qualitative rather than quantitative. Essentially, ancient debates focused on two types of cycles: long run political or dynastic cycles of many decades, and...

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India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule : New Ideas, New Evidence

Clingingsmith, David - 2004

India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …

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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports

Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...

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Behavioral and distributional effects of environmental policy

Carraro, Carlo (contributor); … - 2001

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The economics of art museums

Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1991

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Business cycles : theory, history, indicators, and forecasting

Zarnowitz, Victor - 1992

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Economics of the family : marriage, children, and human capital ; a conference report of the National Bureau of Economic Research

Schultz, Theodore W. (contributor); Schultz, Theodore W. (ed.) - 1974

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Convergent Evolution Toward the Joint-Stock Company

Le Bris, David; Goetzmann, William N.; Pouget, Sébastien - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The origin of the modern publicly-held joint-stock company is typically traced to large-scale maritime trading companies in England and the Netherlands in the early 17th century. Highlighting medieval cases in southern Europe, we claim that the joint-stock company likely emerged in several times...

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Structural Transformation and Value Change : The British Abolitionist Movement

Figueroa, Valentin; Fouka, Vasiliki - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

What drives change in a society's values? From Marx to modernization theory, scholars have identified a connection between structural transformation and social change. To understand how changes in a society's dominant mode of production affect its dominant values, we examine the case of the...

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The International Monetary System and International Financial System as an Analogy to the Copernican Heliocentric system : A simple multi-layers network model with simultaneous regime changes

Bordo, Michael D.; Bastidon, Cécile - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The evolution of the IMS and IFS in the past several hundred years can be viewed through the lens of the Copernican heliocentric system developed over 500 years ago. We trace out the evolution across regimes of the IMS and IFS in terms of network representations of the Copernican system. We...

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