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Regional Income Dispersion and Market Potential in the Late Nineteenth Century Hapsburg Empire

Schulze, Max-Stephan - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Western Europe than suggested in the historiography. The measurement of regional market potential proves strongly sensitive to …

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Raffaelli on historical progress in Smith and in Marshall

Perrotta, Cosimo - In: Marshall and the Marshallian heritage : essays in …, (pp. 61-77). 2021

Tiziano Raffaelli's pathbreaking contributions to our understanding of how Adam Smith and Alfred Marshall viewed historical progress are scattered across a number of his publications. This chapter builds on Raffaelli's discussion in two ways. First, it provides a discussion and synthesis of his...

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The virtuous spiral of Smithian growth : colonialism as a contradiction

Miller, Marcus - 2024

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The virtuous spiral of Smithian growth : colonialism as a contradiction

Miller, Marcus - 2024

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Opportunity Sets and the Measurement ofInformation

Bossert, Walter - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 1998

This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the problem of measuring the informationcontained in opportunity sets. In many choice situations, the items that can be selectedfrom an opportunity set (the objects of choice) do not coincide with the consequencesthey induce (the objects a...

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Remarks on the Measurement, Valuation, and Reporting of Intangible Assets

Baruch, Lev - Leonard N. Stern School of Business <New York, NY> / … - 2003

Intangible assets are both large and important. However,current financial statements provide very little informationabout these assets. Even worse, much of the information that isprovided is partial, inconsistent, and confusing, leading tosignificant costs to companies, to investors, and to...

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Productivity Measurement Issues in Services Industries: “Baumol’s Disease” Has Been Cured

Triplett, Jack E.; Bosworth, Barry - Brookings Institution - 2003

[...]As we documented in a longer version of this paper (Triplettand Bosworth forthcoming), labor productivity growth in theservices industries after 1995 was a broad acceleration, not justconfined to one or two industries, as has sometimes beensupposed. Using the 1977-95 period as the base, we...

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Measuring Treasury Market Liquidity

Fleming, Michael J. - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY> - 2003

[...]This article adds to the literature by estimating andevaluating a comprehensive set of liquidity measures for theU.S. Treasury securities market. High-frequency data from theinterdealer market allow for an analysis of trading volume,trading frequency, bid-ask spreads, quote sizes, trade...

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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Using a new source of evidence we explore the geographical mobility of mid-nineteenth century seamen. Among seamen born outside London, the tall, the literate and those who could remember the exact day, month and year when they were born - characteristics that we suggest mark them out as men...

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“On a Mission” with Mutable Mobiles

Morgan, Mary S. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

: its recipesfor development, its possibilities of measurement, and fromdifferences in political economy. These dimensions … their own mission to makethe new economy. This story of mutable mobiles is revealed in thedetailed diary entries of the …,these local facts and choices had to be made consistent with eachother and with the projected future of the economy as a whole …

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