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22474: Provincializing the First Industrial Revolution

Patrick O'Brien

22473: Shanghai-based industrialization in the early 20th century: a quantitative and institutional analysis

Debin Ma

22472: Imperialism, globalization, and the soap/suds industry in Republican China (1912-37): the case of Unilever and the Chinese consumer

Harriet T. Zurndorfer

22471: Melting markets: the rise and decline of the Anglo-Norwegian ice trade, 1850-1920

Bodil Bjerkvik Blain

22470: The nature and linkages of China's tributary system under the Ming and Qing dynasties

Giovanni Andornino

22468: East and West: textiles and fashion in Eurasia in the early modern period

Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello

22467: The Spanish Empire and its legacy: fiscal re-distribution and political conflict in colonial and post-colonial Spanish America

Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin

22466: Colonialism, globalization and the economy of South-East India, c.1700-1900

David Washbrook

22463: Competing notions of "competition" in late-nineteenth century American economics

Mary S. Morgan

22462: New light through old windows: a new perspective on the British economy in the Second World War

Peter Howlett

22461: Social risk and social welfare in Britain, 1870-1939

Paul Johnson

22459: Textile factories, tuberculosis and the quality of life in industrializing Japan

Janet Hunter

22458: European emigration 1815-1930. Looking at the emigration decision again

Dudley Baines

22457: Scale bias & state building: an historical perspective on government intervention, political systems & economic performance in tropical Africa

Gareth Austin

22456: Class law in Victorian Britain

Paul Johnson

22454: The Instituto Nacional de Prevision Social and social insurance reform in Argentina, 1944 to 1953

Peter Lloyd-Sherlock

22453: Human capital and payment systems in Britain, 1833-1914

Dudley Baines, Peter Howlett and Paul Johnson

22451: Much ado about little

Robert Humphreys

22450: Regional fairs, institutional innovation and economic growth in late medieval Britain

Stephan R. Epstein

22449: The performance of public enterprises in South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe during the last two decades

David Ferreira

22448: Political primacy in economic laws: a comparison of British and American anti-dumping legislation, 1921

Peter M. Richards

22446: Scientific charity in Victorian London. Claims and achievements of the Charity Organisation Society, 1869-1890

Robert Humphreys

22445: Essex men vindicated: output, incomes and investment in agriculture, 1850-73

E. H. Hunt and S. J. Pam

22444: Learning by doing among Victorian farmworkers: a case study in the biological and cognitive foundations of skill acquisition

David Mitchell

22442: "Blind Alley" employment and the role of adolescent labour force experience in skill development in late 19th and early 20th century England

David Mitchell

22441: British imperialism in microcosm: the annexation of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Margaret Ackrill

22440: Short-termism on trial: an empirical approach

Breht Feigh

22439: Tenancy and agricultural techniques: evidence from the 1882 commission

David Coombs

22438: Economic distress and unemployment in Australia since 1850

Paul Johnson

22437: Freedom and growth. The European miracle?

Stephan R. Epstein

22435: Bygone charity: myths and realities

Robert Humphreys

22434: Late economic development in a regional context

Domingos Giroletti, Max-Stephan Schulze and Carles Sudri

22433: How important was tariff protection for Spanish farming prior to 1936?

James Simpson

22432: British business in Argentina

Colin M. Lewis

22421: The principal-agent question: the chartered trading companies

Simon Ville and S. R. H. Jones

22419: Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-modern Europe

Stephan R. Epstein

22418: The 'quality of life': lessons for and from the British Industrial Revolution

Nicholas Crafts

22417: Transplanting economic ideas: international coercion and native policy

Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglu

22416: Creditors, debtors and the law in Victorian and Edwardian England

Paul Johnson

22414: Population growth and the dynamics of Canadian development: a multivariate time series approach

Alan Green and Gordon Sparks

22412: The character of "rational Economic Man"

Mary S. Morgan

22411: Were British "business cycles" cyclical? Evidence from historical statistics, 1700-1913

Philip Epstein

22410: Re-estimating Austrian GDP, 1870-1913: methods and sources

Max-Stephan Schulze

22409: The labour force participation and economic well-being of older men in London, 1929-31

Dudley Baines and Paul Johnson

22407: 'Pawns will live when slaves is apt to dye': slaving and pawnship at Old Calabar in the era of the slave trade

Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson

22406: The abolition of resale price maintenance in Britain in 1964: a turning point for British manufacturers?

Helen Mercer

22405: American business cycles since World War II: historical behaviour and statistical representation

Philip Epstein

22403: Finance capital in the Weimar Republic: does evidence on supervisory board representation support Hilferding's view of the role of large banks in German capitalism?

Jeroen F De Boer

22402: Business cycles and economic policy, 1914-1945: a survey

Albrecht Ritschl and Tobias Straumann

22396: Productivity of growth during the First Industrial Revolution: inferences from the pattern of British external trade

C Knick Harley and Nicholas Crafts

22395: Clogs to clogs in three generations? Explaining entrepreneurial performance in Britain since 1850

Tom Nicholas

22394: Industrial growth in the Third World, c.1870-c.1990: depressions, intra-regional trade and ethnic networks

Gareth Austin

22393: In search of the 'traditional' working class: social mobility and occupational continuity in inter-war London

Dudley Baines and Paul Johnson

22392: The late medieval crisis as an 'integration' crisis

Stephan R. Epstein

22391: The impact of American aid in the Spanish economy in the 1950s

Oscar Calvo-Gonzalez

22390: Quantitative economic history

Nicholas Crafts

22389: The rise and decline of Italian city-states

Stephan R. Epstein

22388: Nutrition and economic destitution in Northern Ghana, 1930-1957. A historical perspective on nutritional economics

Jerôme Destombes

22387: Income distribution and convergence: the European experience, 1870-1992

Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett and Max-Stephan Schulze

22386: Industrial growth revisited: manufacturing output in Greece during the interwar period

Olga Christodoulaki

22385: The myth of meritocracy: an inquiry into the social origins of Britain’s business leaders since 1850

Tom Nicholas

22384: Development history

Nicholas Crafts

22383: Market integration in the North and Baltic Seas, 1500-1800

David Jacks

22382: From economic convergence to convergence in affluence? Income growth, household expenditure and the rise of mass consumption in Britain and West Germany, 1950-1974

Peter Kramper

22381: Competition and innovation in 1950’s Britain

Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts

22380: Distribution dynamics: stratification, polarisation and convergence among OECD economies, 1870-1992

Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett and Max-Stephan Schulze

22379: The ‘labour question’ in nineteenth century Brazil: railways, export agriculture and labour scarcity

Lucia Lamounier

22378: New answers to old questions: explaining the slow adoption of ring spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913

Tim Leunig

22377: Explaining Victorian entrepreneurship: a cultural problem? A market problem? No problem?

William Kennedy and Robert Delargy

22372: The formation of “modern” economics: engineering and ideology

Mary S. Morgan

22371: Careers for the unskilled in the Great Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1913

Peter Howlett

22370: The limits of social democracy? Tax and spend under Labour, 1974-1979

Tom Clark

22369: Fiscal exceptionalism: Great Britain and its European rivals: from civil war to triumph at Trafalgar and Waterloo

Patrick O'Brien

22368: Precocious British industrialization: a general equilibrium perspective

Nicholas Crafts and C. Knick Harley

22367: Social insurance regimes: crises and 'reform' in the Argentine and Brazil, since c. 1900

Colin M. Lewis and Peter Lloyd-Sherlock

22366: The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size and market structure, 1890-1927

Gerben Bakker

22363: The globalisation of codfish and wool: Spanish-English-North American triangular trade in the early modern period

Regina Grafe

22360: Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago

Tim Leunig

22356: Workers and ‘subalterns’: a comparative study of labour in Africa, Asia and Latin America

Colin M. Lewis

22355: Was the Bundesbank’s credibility undermined during the process of German reunification?

Matthias Morys

22354: Steam as a general purpose technology: a growth accounting perspective

Nicholas Crafts

22353: Fact or fiction? Re-examination of Chinese premodern population statistics

Kent Deng

22352: Autarkic policy and efficiency in the Spanish industrial sector. An estimate of domestic resource cost in 1958

Elena Martínez Ruiz

22351: The post-war rise of world trade: does the Bretton Woods System deserve credit?

Andrew G. Terborgh

22350: Quantifying the contribution of technological change to economic growth in different eras: a review of the evidence

Nicholas Crafts

22349: Bureau competition and economic policies in Nazi Germany, 1933-39

Oliver Volckart

22348: At the origins of increased productivity growth in services. Productivity, social savings and the consumer surplus of the film industry, 1900-1938

Gerben Bakker

22338: The effects of the 1925 Portuguese Bank Note Crisis

Henry Wigan

22337: Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: analyses, perceptions and conceptions of Britain’s precocious transition to Europe’s first industrial society

Giorgio Riello and Patrick O'Brien

22336: The canton of Berne as an investor on the London capital market in the 18th century

Stefan Altorfer

22335: News from London: Greek government bonds on the London Stock Exchange, 1914-1929

Olga Christodoulaki and Jeremy Penzer

22334: The world economy in the 1990s: a long run perspective

Nicholas Crafts

22333: Labour market adjustment to economic downturns in the Catalan textile industry, 1880-1910: did employers breach implicit contracts?

Jordi Domenech

22332: Business culture and entrepreneurship in the Ionian Islands under British rule, 1815-1864

Sakis Gekas

22327: Ottoman state finance: a study of fiscal deficits and internal debt in 1859-63

Keiko Kiyotaki

22326: Fiscal and financial preconditions for the rise of British naval hegemony, 1485-1815

Patrick O'Brien

22325: An estimate of imperial Austria’s gross domestic fixed capital stock, 1870-1913: methods, sources and results

Max-Stephan Schulze

22324: Harbingers of dissolution?: grain prices, borders and nationalism in the Hapsburg economy before the First World War

Max-Stephan Schulze and Nikolaus Wolf

22322: Mercantilist institutions for the pursuit of power with profit. The management of Britain’s national debt, 1756-1815

Patrick O'Brien

22321: Gresham on horseback: the monetary roots of Spanish American political fragmentation in the nineteenth century

Alejandra Irigoin