Archiv für Mai 2015

Plenty of land, land of plenty: the agrarian output of Portugal (1311-20)

This article presents a benchmark for Portuguese agrarian output for the 1311–20 decade. This benchmark is built from the supply side using the value of church tithes combined with contemporary parish accounts. Two main findings emerge: first, p…

Self-defeating austerity? Evidence from 1930s‘ Britain

Self-defeating austerity entails „perverse effects“ of fiscal consolidation such that fiscal indicators deteriorate. Inter alia, this depends on the size of the fiscal multiplier as Keynes (1933. The Means to Prosperity. London: Macmillan) underlined….

The paradox of progress: the emergence of wage discrimination in US manufacturing

This article tests for wage discrimination in US manufacturing during the nineteenth century and in 2002 by estimating the female-to-male productivity ratio and comparing it to the wage ratio. This method will not identify all forms of discrimination,…

A twin crisis with multiple banks of issue: Spain in the 1860s

We create new datasets on capital flows and bank balance sheets to document how the Spanish crisis of the mid-1860s fits the main characteristics of a twin crisis. Next, we describe the particular banking system of Spain, characterized by the coexiste…

Vol. 16, n°1 | 2012 – Varia

ISBN 978-2-600-01594-3
Broché

Vol. 16, n°1 | 2012 – Varia

ISBN 978-2-600-01594-3
Broché

Herman Diederiks Prize / Prix Herman Diederiks

Print Culture, Moral Panic, and the Administration of the Law : The London Crime…

Everyone to skis! skiing in Russia and the rise of Soviet biathlon

10.1080/00905992.2015.1012897<br/>Nameeta Mathur

Volume 33 Issue 02

Law and History Review, Volume 33 Issue 02 Law and History Review ( LHR ), America’s leading legal history journal, encompasses American, European, and ancient legal history issues. The journal’s purpose is to further research in the fields of the soc…

Volume 65 Issue 01

The Classical Quarterly, Volume 65 Issue 01 The Classical Quarterly has a reputation for publishing the highest quality classical scholarship for over 100 years. It publishes research papers and short notes in the fields of language, literature, his…

Vol. 16, n°1 | 2012 – Varia

ISBN 978-2-600-01594-3
Broché