Economic History Working Papers

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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

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

22413: The human development index: some historical comparisons

Nicholas Crafts

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

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 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