This paper proposes a new methodology of estimating non-primary sector output shares in early modern growth. By using data from proto-industrial Japan, the paper demonstrates, first, that not just the rate of urbanisation but population density would …
New archival evidence on housing rents in Berlin over 1909–1917 is presented. The data are extracted from newspaper announcements and georeferenced. Using hedonic regressions, quality-adjusted rent indices are constructed and employed to analyze…
Warfare and military competition have been defined as important driving forces for the expansion of fiscal capacity during late-modern times. However, the empirical evidence remains inconclusive, and we still lack a historical narrative that explains …
This paper uses Canadian census data from 1911 to 1931 to trace the labour market assimilation of immigrants up to the onset of the Great Depression. We find that substantial earnings convergence between 1911 and 1921 was reversed between 1921 and 193…
I contribute to the debate on the timing of the Little Divergence within pre-industrial Europe. I add Polish real wages to the comparative framework by comparing them with the English and Italian series. I compile existing data for Poznał, Lublin, and the Polish agricultural sector. I add this information to the internationally available evidence for Cracow, Gdałsk, Warsaw, and Lviv. I demonstrate that the more processed grains, i.e., beer and bread, feature in a basket used to deflate wages, the greater the observed superiority of London over the Polish cities. I also show that Poland was characterised by the widest income gap between the urban and rural sectors. I account for income differences between sectors by weighting the income series by occupational structures. The evidence suggests that England was richer than Poland by 1500. The countries converged around 1600. Subsequently, Poland began to lag behind from the seventeenth century onwards.
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Dans ses remarques conclusives, Francesco Boldizzoni discute les trois problèmes soulevés par les commentateurs et commentatrices, à savoir : la rationalité et la nature humaine ; les fondements sociaux et culturels du comportement économique ; et le problème de l’historicisation, ou des relations entre histoire et théorie. Il en appelle à une approche interprétative comme seule façon de surmonter les limites des analyses néopositivistes.
Wenn in einem Jahr – nach dem voraussichtlichen Einzug der „Alternative für Deutschland“ in den Deutschen Bundestag – die Frage nach dem entscheidenden Moment ihres …
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