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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

22320: Universal banking failure?: an analysis of the contrasting responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s

Christopher Louis Colvin

22319: The triumph and denouement of the British fiscal state: taxation for the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

Patrick O'Brien

22318: Origins of catch-up failure: comparative productivity growth in the Hapsburg Empire, 1870-1910

Max-Stephan Schulze

22317: Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind?: anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London

Jane Humphries and Tim Leunig

22316: The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940

Gerben Bakker

22315: Is social capital persistent?: comparative measurement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Marta Felis Rota

22314: Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment

Gerben Bakker

22313: The Jesuits as knowledge brokers between Europe and China (1582-1773): shaping European views of the Middle Kingdom

Ashley E. Millar

22311: Regional income dispersion and market potential in the late nineteenth century Hapsburg Empire

Max-Stephan Schulze

22310: ‘The big problem of the petty coins’, and how it could be solved in the late Middle Ages

Oliver Volckart

22309: The Anglo-German productivity puzzle, 1895-1935: a restatement and a possible resolution

Albrecht Ritschl

22308: The history, nature and economic significance of an exceptional fiscal state for the growth of the British economy, 1453-1815

Patrick O'Brien

22307: The economic history of sovereignty: communal responsibility, the extended family, and the firm

Lars Boerner and Albrecht Ritschl

22306: A stakeholder empire: the political economy of Spanish imperial rule in America

Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin

22305: The U.S. business cycle, 1867-1995: dynamic factor analysis vs. reconstructed national accounts

Albrecht Ritschl, Samad Sarferaz and Martin Uebele

22304: Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s

Barry Eichengreen and Albrecht Ritschl

22303: War and wealth: economic opportunity before and after the Civil War, 1850-1870

Taylor Jaworski

22273: Towards a macro-social approach to the theory of the formation of wage and salary structure

David Marsden

21780: Automobile replacement: a dynamic structural approach

Pasquale Schiraldi

21778: Social inequalities and wage, housing and pension reforms in urban China

Bingqin Li and Gong Sen

21772: Low-cost urban housing markets: serving the needs of low-wage, rural-urban migrants?

Bingqin Li, Mark Duda and Huamin Peng

21758: New research on advertising foods to children: an updated review of the literature

Sonia Livingstone

21757: Advertising foods to children: Understanding promotion in the context of children's daily lives. A review of the literature prepared for the Research Department of the Office of Communications (OFCOM)

Sonia Livingstone and Ellen Helsper

21756: A commentary on the research evidence regarding the effects of food promotion on children: prepared for the research department of the Office of Communications (OFCOM)

Sonia Livingstone

21543: Zimbabwe's global citizens in 'Harare North': overview and implications for development

Beacon Mbiba

21432: Carlyle and the French Enlightenment: transitional readings of Voltaire and Diderot

Timothy Hochstrasser

21419: The cultural industries sector: its definition and character from secondary sources on employment and trade, Britain 1984-91

Andy C. Pratt

21403: The effect of connection charges on the number of connections and on the prices and rents of houses

Lucien Foldes

21396: Burial sites, informal rights and lost kingdoms: the contesting of land claims in Mpumalanga, South Africa

Deborah James

21394: The cultural industries production system: a case study of employment change in Britain, 1984-91

Andy C. Pratt

21368: The invention of operational risk

Michael Power

21311: Regulation vs de-regulation: which route for Europe's labour market

David Marsden

21305: Occupational and internal labour markets in Britain and France

Francois Eyraud, David Marsden and Jean-Jacques Silvestre

21171: Implications of clean development mechanism of the Kyoto summit to rural livelihoods in India

Haripriya Gundimeda

21072: The accord: an economic and social success story

P. Cook

21055: The Eastern transition to a market economy: a global perspective

John Williamson

21033: The future of trade unionism in industrialised market economies: synthesis report

Elimane Kane and David Marsden