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作者:Northwestern University; Northwestern University
摘要:It is widely agreed that the burden of housework in the industrialized West did not decrease as much as might be expected since 1880, and may have actually increased for long periods. The article proposes anew explanation: that increases in knowledge on the causes and transmission mechanisms of infectious diseases persuaded women that household members' health depended on the amount of housework carried out. The article traces the origin of this knowledge in the scientific developments of the ...
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作者:University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
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作者:Boston College
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作者:University of Zurich
摘要:Historical events are reflected in asset prices. We analyze movements in the price of bonds issued by five European governments and traded on the Swiss bourse between 1928 and 1948, with special attention to the war years. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for the official outbreak of the war and changes in national sovereignty. But other events to which historians attach great importance are not re...
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作者:University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
摘要:Economics, like geology, is an historical science. Geology has made incredible advances by accepting it is an historical, rather than a laboratory science. Economic historians can help economics make similar advances by adopting the research strategies of modern geology. Intensely empirical and global in their range, today's geologists focus on the historical remains of shocking, usually catastrophic, events in the earth's past. Already empirical and global, economic historians have ample shoc...
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作者:Connelly, J; Berand, IT
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作者:Doyle, WM
摘要:In this article I develop a taxonomy of financial practices based on whether financial activity is intended to fund new capital investment or to create new financial structures to accommodate planned changes in the structure of an industry's existing capital stock. The taxonomy is then applied to the financial development of the U.S. sugar-refining industry between 1875 and 1905. The taxonamy provides an explanation of the rise of the large, widely held industrial corporation in the United Sta...
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作者:Leiden University; Leiden University - Excl LUMC
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作者:University System of Ohio; Miami University
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作者:University of Arizona