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Sailing away from Malthus: intercontinental trade and European economic growth, 1500-1800

Palma, Nuno - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2014

What was the contribution of intercontinental trade to the development of the European early modern economies? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused on static measures of the weight of trade in the aggregate economy at a given point in time, or on the comparison of the income of...

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Longevity and the rise of the West: lifespans of the European elite, 800-1800

Cummins, Neil - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2014

some of this increase, but the majority must reflect other changes in individual behavior. The areas of North-West Europe … which later witnessed the Industrial Revolution achieved greater longevity than the rest of Europe even by 1000AD. The data …

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Scientific charity in Victorian London. Claims and achievements of the Charity Organisation Society, 1869-1890

Humphreys, Robert - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 1993

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Apprenticeship and training in premodern England

Wallis, Patrick - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2007

This paper re-examines the economics of premodern apprenticeship in England. I present new data showing that a high proportion of apprenticeships in seventeenth century London ended before the term of service was finished. I then propose a new account of how training costs and repayments were...

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Re-estimating Austrian GDP, 1870-1913: methods and sources

Schulze, Max-Stephan - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 1997

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The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size and market structure, 1890-1927

Bakker, Gerben - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2003

, however, European films had virtually disappeared from America, and had become marginal in Europe. Theory on sunk costs and …

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Principle-agent problems in the French slave trade: the case of Rochelais Armateurs and their agents, 1763-1792

Forestier, Albane - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005

La Rochelle, the fourth largest slaving port in France in the eighteenth-century, is used as a case study in the application of agency theory to long-distance trade. This analysis explores an area not accounted for in the literature on French commercial practices. Being broadly couched in a New...

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Precocious British industrialization: a general equilibrium perspective

Crafts, Nicholas; Knick Harley, C. - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2002

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The Jesuits as knowledge brokers between Europe and China (1582-1773): shaping European views of the Middle Kingdom

Millar, Ashley E. - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2007

Europe in the sixteenth and most of the seventeenth century was engulfed in a wave of Sinophilia. However, by the … eighteenth century a dramatic shift in the popular view of China in Europe occurred and Sinophobic writings began to dominate … and transmission of information. It finds that economic progress and political consolidation in Europe did result in a …

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Business culture and entrepreneurship in the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-1864

Gekas, Sakis - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005

This paper explores the emergence of a business culture among merchants and entrepreneurs in the Ionian Islands during the period of British rule (1815-1864). New forms of business organisation (the joint-stock company), and novel commercial practices, such as advertising, represent examples of...

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