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Shaping Medieval Markets: The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c. 1200–c. 1450
Dijkman, Jessica - 2011
remarkable development. Comparing Holland to England and Flanders, the book shows that Holland's specific history of reclamation …
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Encephalization and Division of Labor by early humans
Hartwick, John - 2007
We draw on Ricardian comparative advantage between distinct persons to map out the division of labor among proto-humans in a village some 1.7 million years ago. A person specialized in maintaining a cooking fire in the village is of particular interest (Ofek [2001]). We are also interested in...
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Epidemic trade
Börner, Lars; Severgnini, Battista - 2011
This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we estimate the speed (in kilometers per day) of transmission...
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Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 1: Contexts
von Reden, Sitta (contributor) - 2020
exchange which were crucial for ancient Eurasian connections.Volume I provides a comparative history of the most important … and Western Graeco-Roman history. …
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Theories of the Family and Policy
Jacobsen, Veronica; Fursman, Lindy; Bryant, John; … - 2004
and individual behaviour for the likely success of policy intervention. Anthropology documents not only the universality …
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Augustus‘ langer Schatten: Warum der römische Teil Deutschlands noch heute besser entwickelt ist
Wahl, Fabian - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 25 (2018) 02, pp. 18-25
Ökonomen und Politiker gehen heute nicht mehr von einer schnellen Angleichung der wirtschaftlichen Leistungsfähigkeit zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland aus. In der Tat zeigen viele aktuelle Studien, dass regionalökonomische Unterschiede sehr persistent, also kaum veränderbar sind. Dieser...
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How useful is anthropometric history? Some reflections on Paul Hohenberg’s recent presidential address to the American Economic History Association
Komlos, John - 2009
In his recent presidential address to the American Economic History Association, Paul Hohenberg argued that … anthropometric history does not meet his criteria for useful research in the field of economic history. He considers research useful … conclusion that anthropometric history has not been useful. …
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How are markets created? The case of Japan's silver market
Pascha, Werner; Storz, Cornelia - 2008
study of Japan's silver market. It starts from the perspective that the source of competitive advantage under fundamental … cognitive conditions. The authors argue that the promise of the eventual size of the silver market is insufficient as an … explanation for market creation because of the uncertainties involved. Moreover, cultural traditions are much more varied than …
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The Telecommunication Markets in Selected OECD Countries: Market Characteristics and Regulatory Institutions
Kiessl, Thomas; Schedl, Hans - In: CESifo DICE Report 04 (2006) 3, pp. 29-38
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Markt und Organisation: Programmatische Überlegungen zur Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik
Pies, Ingo - 2008
Dieser Beitrag skizziert das ordonomische Forschungsprogramm einer ökonomischen Theorie der Moral und stellt die Grundzüge einer mit dieser Methode arbeitenden Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik vor: Die Ordonomik versteht sich als eine rational-choice- basierte Analyse der Interdependenz von...
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