2012

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• Rules of Exchange: French Capitalism in Comparative Perspective, Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries AI翻译
  作者：Bocconi University
• Pork-Barrel Politics in Semi-Democracies: The Spanish Parliamentary Roads, 1880-1914 AI翻译
  作者：University of Barcelona; University of Barcelona; University of Barcelona
  摘要：This article analyzes the effects of parliamentary representation on road infrastructure expenditure during the Spanish Restoration. Using a panel data set of Spanish provinces in 1880-1914, we find that the allocation of administrative resources among provinces depended both on the delegation characteristics (such as the share of MPs with party leadership positions, and their degree of electoral independence), and the regime's global search for stability. These results point to the importance...
• The Agrarian History of Sweden: From 400BC to AD2000 AI翻译
  作者：Lund University
• The Market for Paintings in Italy During the Seventeenth Century AI翻译
  作者：Universita Ca Foscari Venezia; University of Milano-Bicocca
  摘要：We study the seventeenth-century market for figurative paintings in Italy analyzing original contracts between patrons and artists. We show that a number of supply and demand factors affected prices. We find a positive and concave relation between prices and size of paintings reflecting economies of scale. We show evidence of a positive relationship between prices and the number of figures depicted. Trade in paintings was sufficient to equalize prices between different destinations. Finally, w...
• The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History AI翻译
  作者：McGill University
• More Machines, Better Machines ... or Better Workers? AI翻译
  作者：Boston University
  摘要：How much of the rapid growth in output per man-hour in nineteenth-century cotton weaving arose from technical change and how much arose from price-driven substitution of capital for labor? Using an engineering production function, I find that factor price changes account for little of the growth in output per man-hour. However, much of the growth and most of the apparent labor-saving bias arose not from inventions, but from improved labor quality- better workers spent less time monitoring the ...
• Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Rights Against Progressive Reform AI翻译
  作者：Vanderbilt University
• Sunbelt Rising: The Politics of Place, Space, and Region AI翻译
  作者：University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Malthus, Wages, and Preindustrial Growth AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Davis
  摘要：Gregory Clark argued in A Farewell to Alms that preindustrial societies, including England, were Malthusian. Day wages show incomes were trendless: as high in Europe in the medieval era as in 1800, even in England. The opposed view is that England and the Netherlands grew substantially from 1200 to 1800. Early day wages overestimate living standards. Here we show that preindustrial farm employment shares can be estimated from probate occupation reports. These imply only 60 percent employed in ...
• Before and Beyond Divergence: The Politics of Economic Change in China and Europe AI翻译
  作者：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology