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		<title>On cognitive functions interrupted (and the growth of two retail corporations in the US)</title>
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		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been able to write much since the equivalent of a permanent shock affected my production function as well as its slope (break ups are always hard, being the dumpee is even worse, in the long run we are all dead).
I&#8217;m slowly regaining use of my cognitive functions. For I don&#8217;t want to leave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2094&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murphy A. (2009) The smartest boys in the alley, early derivatives on the London stock market</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Murphy, Anne L. (2009) Trading options before Black-Scholes: a study of the market in late seventeenth-century London. Economic History Review, 62/1: 8-30.


The ledger of the financial broker Charles Blunt contains the details of some 1,500 transactions realized between 1692 and 1695, about a third of which regard the then novel trade in equity options (p.9). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2084&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Market in everything</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[;) MR
During a class this morning, I came across a surprising mention in a 1626 list of commodities exported from New Amsterdam (Manhatten to be precise) to the old one. Along side the usual 7246 beaver furs and a host of other stuff were &#8220;34 ratte vellehiks&#8221; (rat furs).
Not only is it quite disgusting to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2079&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seurot F. (2002) Something rotten in the state of medieval banking</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:31:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seurot, François (2002) “Les crises bancaires en Italie au Moyen Age: un essai d’applicationn de la théorie de Minsky-Kindleberberger”, paper presented at the XIX Journée d’économie monétaire et bancaire, 21p.

This paper is available online (pdf).
Following a long tradition, Minsky and Kindleberger [1996] have based their analysis of financial crises in the early modern and modern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2074&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A&#8217;Hearn B. (2005) The not-so-mighty finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A’Hearn, Brian (2005) Finance-led divergence in the regions of Italy. Financial History Review, 12/1: 7-41.


After the unification, the Italian South did not catch up with the North, on the contrary they engaged on a divergent path as the per capita income gap increased from 15-25% to 55% in the first 50 years (p.7). This continuing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2065&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Webography</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading the papers and I spotted two interesting articles (from le Monde, in French):
The Belgians seem afraid to go through the 1585 blockade of Antwerp all over again as the Dutch are taking too long to flood a polder giving access to the harbour (some say in order to benefit the port of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2062&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 22:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Catherine by Roger van der Weyden
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2060&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bochove C. van (2008) Outsourcing financial modernisation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bochove, Christiaan van (2008) “Integration of Denmark-Norway in the Dutch capital market”, chapter 4 in The Economic Consequences of the Dutch. Economic integration around the North Sea, 1500-1800, Amsterdam: Aksant, 90-125.

The early modern markets for goods and labour were highly integrated. As the country’s Golden Age came to an end, by 1700, Dutch capital was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2043&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dorestad. A Medieval Metropolis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m just back from Leiden where Jaco Zuijderduijn took us (a group of recently-arrived PhD students) to visit the exhibition devoted to the archaeological findings from the medieval emporium of Dorestad held at the National Museum of Antiquities. The curator, Annemarieke Willemsen, was kind enough to introduce us to several of the pieces.
I must confess, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2039&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murphy A. (2006) The Financial Revolution: a supply-side story (for real)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Murphy, Anne L. (2006) “Dealing with Uncertainty: Managing Personal Investment in the Early English National Debt”, History, 91/302, 200-17.

The sums involved in the so-called English Financial Revolution following the arrival on the throne of William III were altogether not that important: £6.9m from 1688 to 1702 while the government budget over the period reached £72m. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2026&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fontaine L. (2008) When relief is worth more than a treasure</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:45:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fontaine, Laurence (2008) “Entre banque et assistance: la création des monts-de-piété”, chapter 6 in L’Economie morale. Pauvreté, crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle. Paris : Gallimard, p.164-189.


The first Monti di Pietà (or mounts) were created in 15th-century Italy by Recollet monks to shield the less-fortunate from the scourge of usury. It was not so much intended [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2016&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the news</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An economic history of tomatoes
History in the making in rural China
E. Glaeser also explores what went wrong in Argentina (hat tip for publishing top-level research on a normal paper website, via MR).
Leipzig feels the bite of financial history
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=2012&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Alonso García D. (2008) For the monarchy: entrepreneurs on call</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 20:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alonso García, David (2008) “Finances royales et monde financier dans la creation de la monarchie espagnole (xvie siècle)” in Les finances royales dans la monarchie espagnole (xvie-xixe siècles), ed Anne Dubet. Rennes: Presses Unioversitaires de Rennes, 175-186.


Early modern governments’ reliance on private finance has usually been interpreted as a sign of weakness. This is an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1995&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McCant A. (1997) Moral capitalism: investments to feed orphans</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCants, Anne E.C. (1997) &#8220;The Rise and Decline of an Institutional Endowment, in Civic Charity in a Golden Age. Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam, Urbana/Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 151-191.

Numerous elements point to the fact that Dutch charities were well-endowed in the early modern period (p.151). Nonetheless charities were expensive to run and part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1983&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The anti-history boys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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Brad De Long has an interesting post:
If you ask a modern economic historian—like, say, me—if I know why  the world is currently in the grips of a financial crisis and a deep  downturn, I will say that I do know and I will give you this answer:
This is the latest episode in a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1981&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[McCants, Anne E.C. (2007) “Inequality among the poor of eighteenth century Amsterdam”, Explorations in Economic History, 44/1: 1-21.

The Netherlands, and more precisely Holland, are often described as the first modern economy (p.2). Economic growth over the Golden Ages attracted numerous migrants from the rural areas of the country as well as from all over Northern [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1974&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How beer caused the Industrial Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:23:56 +0000</pubDate>
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Just found this article debunking the myth of the traditional Irishness of Guiness, by an economic historian I really like, Cormac Ó Gráda (via MR).
Not only is it fun to read but it tends to confirm what I have been thinking for a while and hope some day to demonstrate, that beer caused the industrial revolution.
Well not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1964&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dagnino G. B. (1995) When being the first is not enough</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:47:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dagnino, Giovanni Battista (1995) “The Tavola di Palermo: The First Public Bank of Second European XVI century” in Proceedings of the Conference on Business History, October 24 and 25 1994, Rotterdam, eds Mila Davids, Ferry de Goey &#38; Dirk de Witt, 91-111.

The evolution of Sicilian banks reflects the history of the island during the early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1957&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the week</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/saint-catherine-of-the-week-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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No one loves St Catherine quite as much as the Orthodox church.
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1954&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the rise and decadence of Detroit (1950-2009)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/27/on-the-rise-and-decadence-of-detroit-1950-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine has an interesting article by Daniel Okrent about Detroit&#8217;s fate. What was once known as America&#8217;s Arsenal of Democracy and became the fourth largest city in the United States, shows signs of accelerated decay. Unemployment rate is almost 30%, business is all but (almost) shutdown, and the town of Robocop has nothing but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1951&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pullan B. (1999) Save the body to save the soul</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/24/pullan-b-1999-save-the-body-to-save-the-soul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pullan, Brian (1999) “The Counter-Reformation, medical care and poor relief”, in Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe, eds Ole Peter Grell, Andrew Cunnigham &#38; Jon Arrizabalaga, London: Routledge, 17-33.

“It [Counter Reformation] stood among much else, for a more introspective Christianity founded on meditative prayer and the systematic examination of conscience, for a moral [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1904&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sylla R. (2008) How Alexander Hamilton founded America (singlehanded)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/22/sylla-r-2008-how-alexander-hamilton-founded-america-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sylla, Richard (2008) “The Political Economy of Early U.S. Financial Development”, in Political Institutions and Financial Development, ed. Stephen Haber, Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 60-91.

In only seven years, from 1788 to 1795, the US underwent a dramatic financial revolution; starting from scratch and swiftly acquiring all the key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1931&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sessions of the Second Latin American Economic History Congress</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/sessions-of-the-second-latin-american-economic-history-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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Here is the list of preapproved sessions  of the Second Latin American Economic History Congress (CLADHE-II), to be held in Mexico City on February 3-5, 2010. To submit a paper to any of the sessions, you have to go here.

Posted in announcement, Economic History, Iberian Peninsula, Latin America Tagged: 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, Atlantic, bank, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1923&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Webshopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/webshoppin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, Chris [I couldn't find his last name] at History of Economics Playground posted a note on a recent seminar in Duke University about Krugman&#8217;s article on the state of economics (mentioned here).
Speaking of Krugman, he wrote a small post on the history of contemporary macroeconomics. It&#8217;s worth reading if you already read the aforementioned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1921&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on Lehman Brothers (1850-2008)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:35:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal presents a neat infographic on the new jobs of Lehman&#8217;s executives after its bankruptcy in September 2009.
Found via Chart Porn.
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		<title>Gelderblom O. &amp; Jonker J. (2008) What really brought interests down</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/gelderblom-o-jonker-j-2008-what-really-brought-interests-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gelderblom, Oscar &#38; Joost Jonker (2009) “The Conditional Miracle. Institutional change, fiscal policy, bond markets and interest rates in Holland 1514-1713”, Utrecht University Working Papers.

This paper is available online (pdf).
Traditional explanation of the low issuing rate on public debt in the Dutch Republic emphasize the dramatic fall that occurred around 1600, but fail to explain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1905&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the Week</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/1900/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Gentille Da Fabriano, Virgin and the Child.
I like how St Catherine is commonly depicted as intercessing with Jesus on the behalf of the wealthy patron, she is represented as an active participant to the process discribed by Le Goff of gradual acceptance of the rich into the Christian community which arguably was a key event [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1900&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On portfolio diversification</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/20/on-portfolio-diversification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1895&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Lehman Brothers</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/on-lehman-brothers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the US Treasury and the Federal Reserve denied to rescue Lehman Brothers, the once almighty investment bank failed a year ago, beginning what would turn to be the mother of all financial crises.
Here is an exclusive Reuters interview with Richard Fuld, the president of Lehman at the time of its bankruptcy.

The New York Times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1889&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: On Krugman and Expedición 1808</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/web-shopping-on-krugman-and-expedicion-1808/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: Sorry about the delay in completing this post (holidays and tons of work impeded its prompt publication). 
Here&#8217;s an article by Paul Krugman on the state of economics and the failure of most mainstream economists to imagine the worst-case scenario (i. e., the world financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession of our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1813&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On developed and emerging economies, 1970-2050</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/on-developed-and-emerging-economies-1970-2050/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a neat visualization by Joe Swainson on the size and position of developed and emerging economies in the world, from 1970 to 2050, as measured by GDP.
Found via Visualizing Economics.
Posted in Economic History, World Tagged: 1900s, 2000s      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1881&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light blogging</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/light-blogging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well actually no blogging for a week, too much work.
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1878&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the week</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/saint-catherine-of-the-week-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Fernando Yáñez de la Almedina, Saint Catherine, c.1507 (Prado).
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1875&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stabel P. and Haemers J. (2006) Financial revolution: the supply side story (… almost)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/stabel-p-and-haemers-j-2006-financial-revolution-the-supply-side-story-%e2%80%a6-almost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stabel, Peter and Jelle Haemers (2006) “From Bruges to Antwerp. International commercial firms and government’s credit in the late 15th and early 16th century”, in Banca, Crédito y Captial. La Monarquía Hispánica y los antiguos Países Bajos (1505-1700), eds. Carmen Sanz Ayán and Bernardo J. García García, Madrid: Fundación Carlos de Amberes, p.20-38.


Introduction
The Financial Revolution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1863&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Huerta de Soto J. (1996) The Bankers of Seville</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/huerta-de-soto-j-1996-the-bankers-of-seville/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 13:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Huerta de Soto, Jesus (1996) “New Light on the Prehistory of the Theory of Banking and the School of Salamanca”, The Review of Austrian Economics, 9/2, 59-81.
 
This article is available on line (pdf) 
Introduction 
During the 16th century, all the bankers of Seville inexorably went bankrupt. They were unable to meet the withdrawal demands from their depositors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1850&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nogal C. Á. (2006) Transferring Spanish cash to 17th-century Flanders</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/nogal-c-a-2006-transfering-spanish-cash-to-17th-century-flanders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nogal, Carlos Álvarez (2006) “La transferencia de dinero a Flandes en el siglo XVII” in Banca, Crédito y Captial. La Monarquía Hispánica y los antiguos Países Bajos (1505-1700), eds. Carmen Sanz Ayán and Bernardo J. García García, Madrid: Fundación Carlos de Amberes, 204-231.

Introduction
From 1567 to 1586, the Spanish Crown sent some 1.5m. ducats annually to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1839&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>France oppose Google&#8217;s scheme&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[..and it is a dirty shame.
In today&#8217;s FT: 
Google’s ambitious plans to scan millions of books and make them readable through its search engine suffered another blow on Monday after France said it would formally oppose the US settlement that Google needs to circumvent complex copyright issues.
France tends to take pride of being a civilized place, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1831&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flandreau M. et al. (2009) Financiers without borders</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/06/flandreau-m-et-al-2009-financers-without-borders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 21:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flandreau, Marc, Christophe Galimard, Clemens Jobst and Pilar Nogués-Marco (2009) &#8220;Monetary Geography Before the Industrial Revolution&#8221;, CEPR, DP7169, 25p.


Introduction
Some argue that national moneys have been constructed by states, but not before the 19th century. Prior, during the 18th century, there were no monetary borders to speak of and local markets were integrated by the ubiquitous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1819&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 20:41:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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The Martyrdom of St Catherine by Jan Provost
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		<title>Webography</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On VOX EU, Joachim Voth and Jonathan Hersh have an excellent (as usual) article on the impact of coffee consumption in a Malthusian world.
A conference with Richard Sylla and freinds on the history of credit rating agencies (via Mostly Economics).
Brad De Long is at it again! He has posted several videos of his classes about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1810&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the market made modern art</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/how-the-market-made-modernism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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During the Utrecht conference, I encountered Jeff Taylor, a young American scholar based at the CEU of Budapest,   who was presenting his research on the rise of modernism in Hungarian art. His work is very interesting as it offers a history of art considered as any other business or economic activity. His PhD thesis will be published and to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1797&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A most excellent method to illustrate the advantages of thrift’</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/a-most-excellent-method-to-illustrate-the-advantages-of-thrift%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today a good article in the FT about the (troubled) mutual banking sector in Europe by Jane Croft and Patrick Jenkins.
The Reverend Henry Duncan did it in Scotland in 1810, Condy Raguet did it in Philadelphia in the US in 1816 and Franz Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen did it in Germany between 1858 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1794&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;t Hart M. (2009) Trust your friends, buy annuities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 19:03:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;t Hart, Marjolein (2009) &#8220;Mutual Advantages: State Bankers as Brokers between the City of Amsterdam and the Dutch Republic&#8221;, in The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic, ed. Oscar Gelderblom, p.115-142.


The Dutch public credit in the early modern period enjoyed a uniquely high standing; but how did it work? (p.116). The sale of the securities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1787&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frehen R., Goetzmann W. and Rouwenhorst G. (2009) Why invest in the bubbles?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frehen, Rik, William Goetzmann and Geert Rouwenhorst (2009) “New Evidence on the First Financial Bubbles”, Yale international Center for Finance, Working Paper 04, 24p.

This article is available online.
Why did investors decide to bet on the various companies that would form the three 1720 bubbles in France, England and the Netherlands? (p.1). How did these bubbles affect companies which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1761&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Industrial production</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/industrial-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual Rebecca Wilder of News N Economics has some seriously good charts and smart comments.

Posted in Economic History Tagged: industrial production      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1764&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This week in Economic History (August 31-September 5, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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From August the 31st to September the 4th, there will be a Summer University in Greece on History, Philosophy and Economic Thought.
From Wednesday to Friday, the 41st UK History of Economic Thought Conference will take place at the University of Manchester.You can contact Terry Peach for more information.
The 8th Conference of the European Historical Economics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1757&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Martyrdom of St Catherine by Fernando Gallego
The quality of the image is not excellent but it is interesting to see a Spanish painting for once.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 09:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have access to any meaningful internet connection for a little while so very light blogging. However in conjunction with the absolutely fantastic article of Marc Flandreau et al. summarized below (by far the best I&#8217;ve read on the matter so far, sorry Oscar) I&#8217;d like to add a few links about early bubbles:
Harvard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1750&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flandreau M. et al. (2009) The question was not how to develop finance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 08:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flandreau, Marc, Christophe Galimard, Clemens Jobst and Pilar Nogués-Marco (2009) &#8220;The bell-jar: commercial interest rates betwee two revolutions&#8221; in The Origin and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions. From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, eds. Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 161-208.


An earlier version of this paper is available here.
For institutionalist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1740&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On [growing] American inequality</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/on-growing-american-inequality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:39:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much household income has received the top 0.01% of Americans since 1913?
Here&#8217;s a graph in Paul Krugman&#8217;s blog showing it.
The graph was made with the tables and figures updated to 2007 prepared by Emmanuel Saez, Professor of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley and the most recent winner of the John Bates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1730&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On hyperinflations</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/on-hyperinflations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Here&#8217;s a chart by Steve H. Hanke and Alex K. F. Kwok comparing the Zimbabwean hyperinflation with other periods  of [hyper]accelerated growth of price levels in the 20th century.
The current Zimbabwean hyperinflation is second only to the Hungarian episode after WWII. Then, prices doubled each 15 hours.
Found via Alejandro Villagomez&#8217;s blog.
Posted in Asia, Economic History, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1725&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the week</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/saint-catherine-of-the-week-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
A good remainder of why Saint Catherine was picked as the Saint Patron of this blog: she was a brilliant scholar (well had she existed that is). Frankly at the moment a bookish saint really talks to me!
Carlo Dolci (1616-1687), Saint Catherine reading a book, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg.
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		<title>Webshopping: potatoes, Thomson and Thompson, serfdom and a few other stuff</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/webshopping-potatoes-thomson-and-thompson-serfdom-and-a-few-other-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 11:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oxonomics has a link to Acemoglu&#8217;s new article.
Projesh Banerjea receives a grant to study Economic History at the LSE (good luck to him).
Paul Kedrosky has a post about why going in circles may not be so stupid after all (he has another post about the Utrecht conference).
A bit late, but it&#8217;s better than never, VOX [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1713&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Law&#8217;s System</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/john-laws-systeme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A charming short anime by the Canadian director Richard Contie. Admittedly it is somewhat simplistic and the image offered of John Law is too candid, but it is a nice way to start thinking about the issue.
 
more about &#8220;John Law&#8217;s Système&#8220;, posted with vodpod

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		<title>Velde F. (2009) Eighteenth-century France&#8217;s one-man-bubble</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/velde-f-2009-eighteenth-century-frances-one-man-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Velde, François R. (2009) “Was John Law’s System a bubble? The Mississipi Bubble revisited” in The Origin and Development of Financial Markets and Institutions. From the Seventeenth Century to the Present, eds. Jeremy Atack and Larry Neal, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 99-120.

 
A slightly different version of this paper is available online.
The shares of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1693&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quinn S. and Roberds W. (2006) When financial innovation&#8217;s good for the economy</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/quinn-s-and-roberds-w-2006-when-financial-innovations-good-for-the-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quinn, Stephen and Willam Roberds (2006) “An Economic Explanation of the Early Bank of Amsterdam, Debasement, Bills of Exchange and the Emergence of the First Central Bank”, Federal Bank of Atlanta. Working Papers Series, 13: 50p.*

This paper is available online.
Introduction
The United Provinces suffered from what Adam Smith termed the “small state” problem: it was awash [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1680&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50,000 reached</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/50000-reached/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That was unexpected, instead of taking three of four days, we&#8217;ve reached 50,000th readers in 12 hours.
But we have received no answers, so please let us know if you&#8217;ve been the 50,000th visitor (or 50,001st, etc.).
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		<title>Prehistoric agriculture and climate change</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/18/prehistoric-agriculture-and-climate-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 05:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a new article in The Economist showing evidence of climate change in the ice polars caps at the same time agrarian societies emerged.
The ice-core record shows that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere made an anomalous upturn about 7,000 years ago, and that methane levels, which were also falling, began to increase [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1673&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On our way to 50,000</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/on-our-way-to-50000/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[prize]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a few days, inch allah, the blog will reach its first 50,000 visitors; it is worth celebrating!
If you are the 50,000th visitor send us an message with a screen capture proving it and we&#8217;ll send you a present (a nice one although we are not quite sure of what it will be yet).
Good luck [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1666&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine of the week</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/saint-catherine-of-the-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Three Saint Catherines this week, all by Carlo Crivelli. The first one is at Montefiore dell&#8217;Aso, Italy, the other two are at the National  Gallery, London
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		<title>&#8220;Surrender, dogs, to those of Salé&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 11:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leila Maziane has recently published her PhD thesis about the Corsairs of Salé. This excellent book fills the gap that existed in the &#8220;Atlantic World&#8221; between Spain and West Africa, it includes Morocco in global history and at the same time coverns fascinatings aspects of a local story. leila Maziane obtained her PhD from Caen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1640&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glorious Revolution Week, the end: are institutional economics a gamy theory?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Glorious Revolution is a cardinal event in the eyes of modern economic historiography. Not only did it provide the setting for the Industrial Revolution, but it also became a textbook example of the impact of institutional change upon the economy. The 1989 article by North and Weingast is said to be the most quoted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1633&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mexican Economic History courses online</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 19:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have finished the last details of the website for the Mexican Economic History course  at UNAM, of which I am a teaching assistant. Here is part I and here is part II. I&#8217;m pretty sure the bibliography in the course is a neat overview of recent economic history in this country.
By the way, here&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1635&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North D. and Weingast B. (1989) The economic impact of institutions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[North, Douglass C. and Barry Weingast (1989) “Constitution and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutional Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England”, The Journal of Economic History, 49/4: 803-832.

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		<title>A little bit of marketing history</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Found via FlowingData.
By the way, there&#8217;s a Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising &#38; Marketing History in Duke&#8217;s Special Collection Library and a Conference on Historical Analysis &#38; Research in Marketing, if you want to know more about marketing history.
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		<title>Interest rates in premodern Amsterdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok it has nothing to do with the theme of the week (the Glorious Revolution), but I&#8217;m sure you hadn&#8217;t remarked there was a theme of the week anyhow.
So here is a very compeling story that explains better than anything else the process of financial revolution; here is a table showing the interest rates in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1612&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>O&#8217;Brien P. (1988) &#8230; or why the Brits used to like paying taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[O&#8217;Brien, Patrick K. (1988) &#8220;The Political Economy of British Taxation, 1660-1815&#8243;, The Economic History Review , 41/1, 1-32.


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Introduction
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		<title>Quinn S. (2001) Public debt to private finance: “Drop dead”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quinn, Stephen (2001) “The Glorious Revolution’s Effect on English Private Finance: A Microhistory 1680-1705”, The Journal of Economic History, 61/3: 593-615.


Disclaimer: this summary is written by the contributors of the blog and not by the author of the article. Any mistake is Manuel’s fault (and he shall be punished).
Introduction
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		<title>Bogart D. (2009) The glorious Transport Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bogart, Dan (2009) “Did the Glorious Revolution Contribute to the Transport Revolution? Evidence from Investment in Roads and Rivers”, University of California-Irvine, Department of Economics Working Papers, #080918, 56p.

This paper is available online. Disclaimer: it is still an ongoing work.
Introduction
By 1600, individual undertakers started proposing to relieve the royal administration and the parishes from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1565&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A modest proposal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are a few ideas that — if ever implemented – may make conferences more interesting.

Professors should never forget that they are not pure brains, they need to get their ideas and discoveries through. They are also performers, their aim is to arise the interest of the crowd and sustain it until the end of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1573&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Carlos A., Key J. and Dupree J. (1998) Early finance’s learning curve</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 07:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carlos, Ann M., Jennifer Key and Jill L. Dupree (1998) “Learning and the Creation of Stock-Market Institutions: Evidence from the Royal African and Hudson’s Bay Companies, 1670-1700”, The Journal of Economic History, 58/2: 318-344.

 
Disclaimer: this summary is written by the blog and not by the authors of the article. Any mistake is Manuel&#8217;s fault.
Introduction
“England’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1555&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The XVth World Economic History Congress is over!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 12:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Oooof, it&#8217;s over!
The 15th World Economic History Conference&#8217;s over, over 1300 participants from every continents, sort of the Olympics for hitory buffs and math geeks put together. On the very positive side: no organizational problems, everything seems to have moved smoothly and if it wasn&#8217;t for the quality of Dutch food in general the whole [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1547&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: Lucas, Skidelsky, Statistics, Protectionism, and Male Purses (!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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Robert Lucas, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago and 1995 Nobel Prize in Economics, wrote a welcome defense of the predictive power of economics-as-it-is, on occasion of The Economist&#8217;s recent criticism on the discipline.
Lord Robert Skidelsky, Keynes&#8217;s biographer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, also argues in defence of economics in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1542&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:23:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 15th World Economic History conference is reaching its end, I&#8217;ll post more about it later, just taking a 5 minutes break to post about a wonderful project that was presented here by the young Italian scholar Andrea Matranga from the Toulouse School of Economic. He was kind (smart) enough to put his research on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1539&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clingingsmith D. and Williamson J. (2008) The world conjuration against the Indian industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 16:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clingingsmith, David and Williamson, Jeffrey G. (2008) “Deindstrialization in 18th and 19th century India: Mughal decline, climate shocks and British industrial ascent”, Exploration in Economic History, 45/3, 209-234.


Between 1700 and 1900, India went from being an industrial powerhouse to forgotten backwater. Why didn’t India manage to retain its edge and how did Britain overtake the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1533&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Matthee R. (1994) For piety and pleasure, coffee and coffeehouses in Safavid Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthee, Rudi (1994) “Coffee in Safavid Iran: Commerce and Consumption”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 37/1, 1-32.

Introduction
Despite the fact that it took place roughly at the same period, the spread of coffee consumption over the world appear to have occurred independently from the European commercial expansion (p.1). It spread during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1526&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Art Diamond has something about how the average American is now better off than Julius Caesar.
Originally from Delong piece on how Fitzwilliam Darcy, by nowadays standards, wasn&#8217;t that rich after all.
VOX EU has a piece by Nico Voigtländer (who should really change his profile picture) and H.-J. Voth on Malthusian forces and the rise of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1524&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Richards J. (1990) One century late: the 17th century crisis in India</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/richards-j-1990-one-century-late-the-17th-century-crisis-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richards, John F. (1990) “The Seventeenth-Century Crisis in South Asia”, Modern Asian Studies, 24/4, 625-638.


Evidence of the 17th-century ‘General Crisis’ have been found all over Eurasia. However in India those years represent the golden age of the Mughal dynasty (p.625). The subcontinent enjoyed a long period of relative peace after the violence of the conquest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1515&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why economic history? (part II)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/why-economic-history-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 19:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week the Economist has a review of Alan Beattie&#8217;s False Economy. A surprising economic history of the world. It is an excellent and highly entertaining book presenting  (mostly recent) economic history to the general public. I will be using the examples he gives to answer to my drop-out dad when he asks me for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1511&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why economic history? (part I)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/25/why-economic-history-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 17:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As usual, Tim Harford, the FT&#8217;s undercover economist, publishes in this week-end&#8217;s paper a fun and insightful column. This time, it&#8217;s about a student who tried to build a toaster from scratch and failed miserably. The morale of the story is that one always depends on tools built before. To put it another way,we are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1508&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: Schwartz&#8217;s view of the Fed&#8217;s monetary policy</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/web-shopping-on-anna-schwartz-view-of-the-feds-countercyclical-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently Michael Hirsh interviewed monetary historian Anna Schwartz for Newsweek. She doesn&#8217;t sound happy at all about the state of monetary policy in the face of the financial crisis. Excerpts:
Anna Schwartz is 93 and has been working at the same place since 1941. She&#8217;s that rarity in economics, or indeed any field: a living legend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1502&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1709: Turcaret, the forefather of the delinquants of finance</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/1709-turcadet-the-forefather-of-the-delinquants-of-finance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting article in Le Monde of today about an almost unknown French theater play dealing with the world of finance just 10 years before the scandal of Law and the South Sea Bubble.
Quelle que soit l&#8217;époque, les financiers et les hommes d&#8217;argent ne goûtent guère la critique. Ainsi, Turcaret, d&#8217;Alain-René Lesage (1668-1747) pièce féroce [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1499&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/web-shopping-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Felix Salmon has an already-2-months-old post about why Economic History is a countercyclical asset.
Jim Naughton has fresh news on the impact of financial integration on economic growth during the first phase of globalisation (gonna read thewhole article tonight in bed).
Aceclyst has a fun list of books devoted to premodern financiers on Amazon.com.
Finally (no I&#8217;m not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1496&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: On Minsky revisited</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/web-shopping-on-minsky-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 21:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Brad DeLong: Here is a nice entry by Interactive Investor on financial cycles and crisis. The chart above is theirs.
Also, don&#8217;t hesitate to read this (fake) Goldman Sachs Internal Memo.
Posted in America, Economic History, World Tagged: 1700s, 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, crisis, finance, USA      <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1489&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 20:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1488&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The first public healthcare program</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Well – mea culpa – the title is totally misleading: what you are about to read about is in no way the first public healthcare program, it is just a very old one, the rest is merely designed to attract the gullible reader. Sorry.
Anyway, it is a cool story: the famous southern Italian folk music [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1478&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/web-shopping-9/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two of the two most interesting pieces I have read about the present crisis:
The precious insight of Rebecca Wilder on News n Economics about the Canadian in-migration pattern compared to the one in the US. It&#8217;s already a bit old but it remains a slice of sheer brilliance as far as I&#8217;m concerned.
On a more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1475&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Vatican dinosaur</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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Michelangelo’s frescoes in the Sistine Chapel – the ceiling and the Last Judgement – are amazing works of art, designed to cause awe and rightfully considered as some of the jewels of human ingenuity. These paintings have been hailed as revolutionary on a technical and aesthetic point of view. However despite all their amazing qualities [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1471&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On The Economist view of what the crisis means for economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist has published on its last edition three articles on the impact of the crisis on economics as a science. The first article is a general view on the matter, the second has to do with macroeconomic debates and the third on the state of financial economics.
I think that readers will find it interesting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1466&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: Newspaper article on Xinjiang&#8217;s economic history</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/web-shopping-newspaper-article-on-xinjiangs-economic-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you want to know more about the historical and economic origins of Uighur&#8217;s unrest in China last weeks, here is a good article on Xinjiang&#8217;s history by Edward Wong, a New York Times journalist.
Posted in Asia, Economic History Tagged: 1200s, 1300s, 1400s, 1500s, 1600s, 1800s, 1900s, 2000s, China, empire, Ottoman     [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1460&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<title>Magra C. (2007) For cod and country, fishermen and the American Revolution</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/magra-c-2007-for-cod-and-country-fishermen-and-the-american-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Magra, Christopher P. (2007) “The New England Cod Fishing Industry and Maritime Dimensions of the American Revolution”8/4, Entreprise and Society, 799-806.


Intro: “a vibrant colonial extractive industry” 
During the 18th century, cod fishing (at the sale thereof to Catholic Europe) allowed the young American colonies to reap enormous profits. From 1768 to 1772, “fish contributed 35% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1449&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On &#8220;Stocks for the Long Run&#8221;, revisited</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/onstocksforthelongrunrevisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Financial journalist and &#8220;The Inteligent Investor&#8221; columnist Jason Zweig writes in the Wall Street Journal on the consistency of long-term stock market time series used in Jeremy Siegel&#8217;s Stocks for the Long Run book. In his article, Zweig questions how useful and reliable is to analyze financial markets with (weakly constructed) historical stock-market data, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1439&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/11/web-shopping-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brad Delong remembered about economic history for the first time in a while and posted about Bob Allen&#8217;s book; well the post is mostly a quotation but I really liked the comments.
The Pivot of Global History: The Handoff from the First to the Second Industrial Revolution
Bob Allen of Oxford writes the smartest thing I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1437&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>De Vries J. (2005) The Dutch Atlantic economies</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/de-vries-j-2005-the-dutch-atlantic-economies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[De Vries, Jan (2005) “The Dutch Atlantic Economies”, in  Peter A. Coclanis, ed., The Atlantic Economy During The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries: Organization, Operation, Practice, And Personnel, Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, p.1-10.


Buy the book on line.
Initial forays
The Dutch started venturing outside the European waters in the late 16th century. This first Dutch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1426&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Catherine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The Martyrdom of St Catherine, by Lucas Cranach
May she be with all of you.
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		<title>Celebration</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/celebration/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was my 100th reading note (including one lost I don&#8217;t know how and one I was forced to withdraw)!!!
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		<title>Hancock D. (2003) Madeira wine: the rise of a trans-imperial market economy</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/hancock-d-2003-madeira-wine-the-rise-of-a-trans-imperial-market-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hancock, David J. (2003) “L’émergence d’une économie de réseau (1640-1815). Le vin de Madère”, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 58/3, 649-672.


English version available here (pdf).
The Atlantic during the early modern period became a coherent “functional unit” integrating three continents; as such it is an essential concept for historians (p.649). In the 18th century in particular the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1411&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lovejoy P. and Richardson D. (2001) Pawnship in West Africa during the slave trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lovejoy, Paul E. and Richardson, David (2001) “The Business of Slaving: Pawnship in Western Africa, c.1600-1810”, The Journal of African History, 42/1, 67-89.


“The institution of pawnship, specially the use of people as collateral for credit, helped underpin the Atlantic slave trade” (p.68). Leaving people as collateral solve the trust issue attached to credit (p.69).
Several types [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1394&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/web-shopping-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robert J. Samuelson&#8217;s &#8220;Economists out for lunch&#8220;
And the very interesting Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
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		<title>On Peter L. Bernstein</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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I recently found out about Peter L. Bernstein (1919-2009), a popular American economist and financial historian. I must confess I haven&#8217;t read any of his books, but will surely read them after having learned from his life.

A son of a financial consultant, Bernstein attended Harvard College, where he befriended Robert Heilbroner (famous historian of economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1388&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drelichman M. and Voth H.-J. (2008) Was Golden Age Spain cursed?</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/drelichman-m-and-voth-h-j-2008-was-golden-age-spain-cursed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:34:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Drelichman, Mauricio and Voth, Hans-Joachim (2008) &#8220;Institutions and the Resource Curse in Early Modern Spain&#8221;, in Helpman, Elhanan; ed. Institutions and Economic Performance, Cambridge, Ma: Harvard University Press, 34p.


This paper is available here (pdf).
Introduction
During the late 16th and 17th century, the Spanish crown defaulted several times on its debts, growth was sluggish and population eventually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1370&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/web-shopping-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acemoglu et al. on how the French invasions during the Revolutionary and  Napoleonic Wars induced later economic growth in the regions invaded (via Oxonomics).
Krugman on being called Malthusian.
A good page on the Second Serfdom on Answers.com.
The (long, long, long) biography of Juan de Mariana by Jesus Huerta de Soto.
And finally a summit of libertarians in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1367&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More tulips</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/07/05/more-tulips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few interesting pages on the web about the Tulipmania:
A totally outlandish critic of Garber&#8217;s book by Doug French which tries (vainly) to explain the episode in monnetary terms.
An interesting (and very very long) post of L&#8217;Antisophiste on the matter (in French).
Some more by Doug French.
Finally, the article on wikipedia is well-worth checking.
Posted in Economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1360&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garber P. (2001) Crisis? What crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garber, Peter M. (2001) Famous First Bubbles. The Fundamentals of Early Manias, Cambridge, MA and London: The MIT Press, 163p.

This book can be found on Amazon
Intro: The ‘traditional’ Tulipmania
The 1636-7 Tulipmania is generally described as a frenzy that led a number of Dutch investors to liquidate other assets to participate in a market for rare [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1355&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: Ferguson and the importance of financial (and economic) history</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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Just a quick note for today. Googleing for some other stuff I found an interview with well-known financial historian Niall Ferguson in Harvard Business School Bulletin of March 2009. He makes the case in this interview for studying financial history in business schools (a case that can be generalized to economics and humanities faculties, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1349&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking back 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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&#8220;If there were no such monopoly&#8220;
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		<title>&#8220;Et hoc rarissime evadunt mercatores&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<title>De Roover R. (1955) Old dead right men</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[De Roover, Raymond (1955) “Scholastic Economics: Survival and Lasting Influence from the Sixteenth Century to Adam Smith”, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 69/2, 161-190.


However economics textbooks sometimes mention Thomas Aquinas, they generally overlook the fact that he was followed by almost five centuries of refined followers who greatly improved and expended his system. Of course, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1329&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: Paul Samuelson, Christina Romer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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Conor Clarke, an economic and financial journalist working at TheAtlantic.com, interviewed Professor Paul Samuelson. Here is part 1 and part 2. This interview is interesting, for Samuelson offers his personal views on the economic policy&#8217;s response to the crisis. Samuelson asserts an interesting recommendation for economists: do study economic history.
Q: Very last thing. What would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1283&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Price Fixing in Ancient Rome by those lunatics of the Von Mises Institute (via Oxonomics).
Capital accumulation before agriculture on the Economist.
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		<title>Ogilvie S. (2001) The economic world of the Bohemian serf</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/ogilvie-s-2001-the-economic-world-of-the-bohemian-serf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ogilvie, Sheilagh (2001) “The Economic World of the Bohemian Serf: Economic Concepts, Preferences, and Constraints on the Estate of Friedland, 1583-1692”, The Economic History Review, 54/3, 430-453.


Introduction
Economic backwardness in the countryside now and then has often been explained by the peasants’ wholly different decision-making process for economic-related activities. The rural dwellers are said to “lack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1306&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking back</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/looking-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Don&#8217;t believe economists&#8230; ever!
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		<title>Park M. (2003) Guilds and the art market</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/28/park-m-2003-guilds-and-the-art-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 10:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Park, Maarteen (2003) “Guilds and the Development of the Art Market during the Dutch Golden Age”, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, 30/3, 236-251.

Introduction
The rise of Dutch painting in the 17th century is contemporary with a dramatic expansion of the corporate system (p.236). Traditional art history sees the success of Dutch painting as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1290&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The City of London and the slave trade</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/27/the-city-of-london-and-the-slave-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Front page of the FT this week end:
Rothschild and Freshfields founders had links to slavery, papers reveal
By Carola Hoyos
Published: June 26 2009 23:32 &#124; Last updated: June 26 2009 23:32
Two of the biggest names in the City of London had previously undisclosed links to slavery in the British colonies, documents seen by the Financial Times [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1285&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daudin G. (2008) Is my market bigger than yours?</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/daudin-g-2008-is-my-market-bigger-than-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daudin Guillaume (2008) “Domestic trade and market size in late eighteen-century France”, Oxford University: Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, 32p.

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Introduction

The sheer size of the British market is rarely assumed to be a major explanation of the Industrial Revolution. Britons were less numerous than many other people on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1275&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping: On “Taking Stock”</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/web-shopping-on-%e2%80%9ctaking-stock%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marketplace is an American Public Media production that caught my attention some months ago, due to the quality of the contents.
Now, courtesy of Felix Salmon, I found out that Marketplace has a special series, Taking Stock, where economists give their point of view on the current economic situation.
There are two interviews I enjoyed the most. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1266&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Job offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by Manuel, I&#8217;m posting some useful info for once, here is a job offer from the LSE for two part-time fellows:
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		<title>Rembrandt van Rijn,  Self-Portrait in Painter’s Costume (c.1660-1662)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often leave museums unsatisfied. True, I have enjoyed the beautiful objects presented but I have the feeling that the insight they could give me into the object’s period has been neglected. A painting by Uccello for instance is not only valuable for its artistic value but also as a witness of its time. Its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1260&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Maitte C. (2009) Migration and secrets of the glass-making communities</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/13/maitte-c-2009-migration-and-secrets-of-the-glass-making-communities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 08:04:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maitte, Corine (2009) Les Chemins de verre. Les migrations des verriers d&#8217;Altare et de Venise (XVIe-XIXe siècles), chap. 7, Migrer et livrer ses secrets? Secrets et transmission technique, Rennes: Presses Universitaire de Rennes, p.201-238.


The first book dedicated to the “secrets” of glass-making was published in 1612 by the Italian priest Antonio Neri (p.202). Numerous authors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1124&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/web-shopping-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the New York Times, faced with the competition of such luminaries as Feminist studies and Chicano studies (racial history is in my opinion an insult to intelligence&#8230; anyway) only 32% of US colleges offered classes of economic history in 2005, down from 52% in 1975. Oddly enough it is argued that economic hstory [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1249&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in Economic History (June 8-14th, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/this-week-in-economic-history-june-8-14th-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 04:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday begins a conference on Euro-Pop: The Consumption and Production of a European Popular Culture in the 20th Century in the German-Italian Centre Villa Vigoni, at Lake Como, Italy. You can contact Patrick Merziger (p.merziger@fu-berlin.de) or Klaus Nathaus (klaus.nathaus@uni-bielefeld.de) if you are interested. This conference will last till Thursday.
On Tuesday, there will be a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1239&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/web-shopping-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:32:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time, Brad Delong has overdone his geeky self (again): his latest work on issu.
The Guardian runs a ridiculous story on &#8220;White Slavery in North Africa&#8221;, based on Robert Davis&#8217; new book, I&#8217;d like to comment on it:

It is not a racial issue, the &#8220;slaves&#8221; where never defined as white but as Christians. Converting to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1236&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Week in Economic History (June 1st-7th, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday the 2nd, there will be an international conference on &#8220;Genre, Mobilités et Mobilisations&#8221; in the University of Paris 8. You can contact Marguerite Rollinde (GTM) on it.
On Wednesday the third, Irène Favier will present a paper named &#8220;Autour des restructurations industrielles dans la France du second XXe siècle : de Faverge à Vergèze&#8221;, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1232&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 10:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Merci ma dame!
ok folks I&#8217;ve been accepted at Utrecht U. (yay!)
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1227&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m in love (again)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/im-in-love-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 14:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah as usual scoutting the world for novelties brought back some serious goodies this time. Here is WolframAlpha, a new web browser that gives you a synthetic, data-based and throughoutly checked answer to any question you may have (almost). For instance this computational knowledge engine found 42 answers to the meaning of life, but smartly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1221&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/web-shopping-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A review of the book The Survival of the Sickest about the impact of diseases on natural selection in humans on Meg Marquardt&#8217;s blog.
An important lesson to keep in mind from Leonardo Monasterio.
A post on the effects of rent control on the excellent blog market urbanism.
And finally for a bit of entertainment Charles Bamforth talks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1217&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This week in Economic History (May 25-29th, 2009)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday the 25th and Tuesday the 26th, a conference on &#8220;Ambitions and Reality: Historical Perspectives on the Common Agricultural Policy&#8221; will be held in the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Paris. Also on Monday, Stephen Haber (Stanford University) will present a paper on the myth of the resource course in the Economic History Seminar in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1213&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On an economic historian as head of the National Public Records Office of Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is possible that readers of this entry  will find it a bit too local. But I think this piece of news is relevant enough to be of interest to an international audience.
On May the 1st Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato, Professor of Economics and Economic History at CIDE, was appointed as head of the Archivo General [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1131&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Busy week end</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/24/busy-week-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 15:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three EH articles in the mainstream media on the same week end! Christmas&#8217; coming early this year (or is it 2008&#8217;s that&#8217;s late? who knows?).
The economist has a review of Bob Allen&#8217;s book on the Industrial Revolution.
In the same newspaper, a review of Hugh Thomas&#8217; book on the Spanish industrialist Eduardo Barreiros that help rebuild [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1202&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting for liquidity</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/fighting-for-liquidity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 16:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The FT today has an article describing a manover designed to increase asset liquidity in the troubled diamond industry, which is alarmingly reminding of the issues faced by Antwerp merchants in the 15th and 16th century.

Belgium&#8217;s €1bn diamond bail-out
By Stanley Pignal in Brussels


The diamond industry is set to be the latest to be bailed out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1195&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>History&#8217;s among us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 15:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google unveils an odd cast-based discrimination dating back from the Tokugawas: scandal in Japan (from Yahoo! tech).
Old Japanese maps on Google Earth unveil secrets
By JAY ALABASTER, Associated Press Writer &#8211; Sat May 2, 2009 11:39AM EDT
TOKYO &#8211; When Google Earth added historical maps of Japan to its online collection last year, the search giant didn&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1191&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News from the web</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/news-from-the-web/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A mailing list devoted to economic history created by the dreaded dandy of the field Guillaume Daudin: h i s t o i r e _ e c o @ c r u . f r
An article about Robert Allen&#8217;s new book on the Industrial Revolutio on voxeu (via Oxonomics; other interesting posts from that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1185&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Austin G. (2009) Coercion and labour market in pre-colonial West Africa</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Austin, Gareth (2009) &#8220;Coercion and markets: the political economy of slavery in West Africa, c.1450-1900&#8243;, paper presented for the Séminaire: Travail et conditions de vie en Afrique dans la longue durée, at the Paris School of Economics, 18/05/09.


Introduction
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		<title>This Week in Economic History (May 18th-23rd, 2009)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/17/this-week-in-economic-history-may-18th-23rd-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Monday the 18th, the  London School of Economics Business History Unit Seminar will host James Walker and Peter Scott (Henley Business School at the University of Reading). They will present a paper on &#8220;Sales and Advertising Rivalry in Interwar US Department Stores&#8221;.  That same day, there will be an interesting conference on &#8220;Work and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1172&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web shopping</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/web-shopping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 13:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via our man in Havana São Paulo:

The 1294 credit crunch.
The interest of anthropometric history (pdf).


Even better while listening to fado:

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		<title>On the Second Latin American Economic History Congress</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/on-the-second-latin-american-economic-history-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 04:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well. The Economic History Blog has an exclusive. This post has the text I&#8217;ve written to announce an academic event in February 2010.  The entry might sound too institutional, but I thought it would be nice if I shared it with you all before it appears published in economic history associations websites and e-mail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1160&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 06:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<title>NYC subway</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/nyc-subway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 23:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A really cool map: http://transit.frumin.net/subway/spark.php
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		<title>This Week in Economic History (May 11th-17th)</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/10/this-week-in-economic-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 17:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I work as an assistant to Dr. Luis Jáuregui, president of the Mexican Economic History Association (AMHE). One of my duties is to search and edit new contents for the Association&#8217;s webpage. Among other things, the Association offers a weekly agenda and a list of future events in economic history.
When I first began looking for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1134&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/05/09/interview-of-becattini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 02:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A video interview of Pr. Becattini on industrial clusters and districts.
From the Economist on how imports can be as useful to developing countries as exports.
A series of video interviews of famous economists of finance (found through the Blog University).
A good column (as usual) from the Ft&#8217;s undercover economist on IQ and economic growth.
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		<title>On the Dutch welfare state as seen from a post-swine influenza New World city</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey all. I&#8217;m Manuel. I read Ben’s post on being a contributor to the blog and thought of it as an opportunity to write my ideas on a subject I love (economic history). I thank him for that. From now on, I will write mostly about some topics of Latin American and Iberian economic history [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1095&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding the cities</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A cool series of the show La Fabrique de l&#8217;Histoire on France Culture (in French unfortunately) about the issues related to the challenges faced by those trying to feed the urban areas.


Interview with Edgard Pisani, former French minister of agriculture in the 1960s and founding father of Europe&#8217;s Common Agricultural Policy (mp3).
A documentary about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1085&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Temin P. and Voth H.-J. (2008) A case for deregulation… in 18th-century Britain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Temin, Peter and Voth, Hans-Joachim (2008) “Private borrowing during the financial revolution: Hoare’s Bank and its customers, 1702-24”, Economic History Review, 61/3, 541-564.

Introduction
The Financial Revolution is said to have allowed the British government to borrow widely and cheaply. Famously, North and Weingast added that it also had a profound and beneficial effect on private businesses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1072&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schulze M.-S. and Wolf N. (2009) Ethno-linguistic endogenous borders within the Habsburg Empire</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/schulze-m-s-and-wolf-n-2009-ethno-linguistic-borders-within-the-habsburg-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Schulze, Max-Stephan and Wolf, Nikolaus (2009), “On the origin of border effects: insights from the Habsburg Empire”, Journal of Economic Geography, 9/1, 117-136. 

Introduction
While market integration typically depends on the level of technology and infrastructure, economists have shown that borders affect prices and trade flows (p.117). Administrative borders are strongly trade diverting but what about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1043&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Medici video</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:47:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tip of the hat</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/tip-of-the-hat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting post on Oxonomics.
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1053&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The world&#8217;s first public bank</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/04/18/the-worlds-first-public-bank/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vincent Bolandhas just published in the FT a great article about my beloved city of Genoa and its early and complex financial system and the all-mighty Banco di San Giorgio. I realy like when mainstream media deal with Economic History.
Some more about the bank from The Economist.

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		<title>False economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
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Good review from the FT, found via A New Start:
False Economy: A Surprising Economic History of the World
By Alan Beattie
Riverhead $26.95 336 pages
Published in the UK in June
False Economy is a book about how economic triumphs and disasters have shaped the world – and why it’s so hard to change the course of history once [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1034&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gelderblom O. and Jonker J. (2004) Into a higher gear: the VOC shares and the development of Amsterdam</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 17:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gelderblom, Oscar and Jonker, Joost (2004) &#8220;Completing a Financial Revolution: The Finance of the Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595-1612&#8243;, The Journal of Economic History, 64-3, 641-671.

Introduction
One of the most commonly mentioned innovations of the British Financial Revolution, which occurred under the reign of William III, is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1013&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Help needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a blog on your own is fine, but writing along with other people who are interested in other subjects and have different views is even better. So if you would like to share your thoughts, your reading or even your research on this blog you are most welcome! Come and join the few, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=1003&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fritschy W. (2003) A &#8216;Financial Revolution&#8217; reconsidered</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/04/09/fritschy-w-2003-a-financial-revolution-reconsidered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:42:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fritschy W. (2003) &#8220;A &#8216;financial revolution&#8217; reconsidered: public finance in Holland during the Dutch Revolt, 1568-1548&#8243;, The Economic History Review, 56/1, 57-89.


Introduction
A financial revolution is often mentioned as an important pre-condition for the rise of a modern state. Post-1689 Britain is the best-known example: a shift from short-term to long-term public debt guaranteed by the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=994&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dittmar J. (2008) The emergence of Zipf&#8217;s Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dittmar, Jeremiah (2008) “Cities, Institutions, and Growth: The Emergence of Zipf’s Law”, Job Market Paper.


This paper is available on line.
Introduction
Zipf’s Law is a simple power law holding that the number of cities with population greater than N is proportionate to 1/N, this results in a log-linear relation between city population and city size rank (p.2). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=981&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman P. (1991) Geography and trade</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/krugman-p-1991-geography-and-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Krugman, Paul (1991) Geography and trade, London: MIT Press/Leuven UP, p.142.

Introduction
Economic geography is devoted to understand the location of production in space, in other words where things happen in relation to one another (p.1). Economists ought to remember that countries both occupy and exist in space (p.2).  “To say anything useful or interesting about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=968&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hoffman P., Postel-Vinay G. and Rosenthal J.-L. (1992) Private credit market in Paris</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoffman, Philip T., Postel-Vinay, Gilles, and Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent (1992) “Private Credit Markets in Paris, 1690-1840”, The Journal of Economic History, 52/2, 293-306.


Introduction
In Ancien Régime France, “credit assumed such importance that, as one historian suggest, an 18th-century person’s very reputation was bound up with his ability to obtain loans.” Until the late 19th century, the usual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=962&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hoppit J. (1986) Financial crises in 18th-century England</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/hoppit-j-1986-financial-crises-in-18th-century-england/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoppit, Julian (1986) “Financial Crises in Eighteenth-Century England”, The Economic History Review, 39/1, 39-58.


Introduction
“Because the financial system in the 18th century was evolving and becoming more sophisticated, […] the nature of crises developed and changed”. Historians have long disagreed on the very definition of what constituted a crisis in early modern England (p.40). The author [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=954&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brillant exposé, which should inspire every economic historians. I&#8217;m thinking in particular about the culturalist debate. The ethics of any given socio-economic group is buit around a set of rules appealing to the mechanisms described by Dan Ariely. That&#8217;s what people like A. Grief fail to take into account. Men are hard-wired in such [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=948&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some goodies</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:14:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few cool addresses:
Arthur Young&#8217;s voyage in France (french on Gutenberg project).
and the Yale&#8217;s Econ 252, by Pr. R. Shiller on financial markets.
Posted in Economic History       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=946&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goldstone J. (2003) Agricultural Revolution in China</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Goldstone, Jack A. (2003) “Feeding the people, starving the state: China’s Agricultural Revolution of the 17th/18th Centuries”, paper for the EHES Istanbul conference, 43p.

This article is available online
Introduction

The Chinese population jumped from 120 to 350 million between 1620 and 1800. Many historians have assumed that the necessary growth of the agricultural output had been reached [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=935&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North D.C. (1959) Agriculture and economic growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[North, Douglass C. (1959) “Agriculture and Regional Economic Growth”, Journal of Farm Economics, 41/5, 943-951.
 
Introduction
“There seems to be agreement amongst economist that agriculture contributes little to economic growth”. Worse it may even delay development as agricultural comparative advantage may attract production factors away from the most moderns sectors of the economy. At best, progress [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=928&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 10:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;well, this article from The Economist allow us to ask the question.
If trustwortiness can be assessed based on one&#8217;s look, well maybe the Italian bankers looked particularly good. Of course I am joking, but this type of study shows how important modern foreys in the human brain can be for Economic History. Lets say it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=922&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:37:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week in The Economist
Climatology
Historical determinism
Mar 12th 2009 &#124; DALAT
THE idea that climate change will lead to war is often raised by environmental pessimists, and a meeting on the climatic past of South-East Asia, held last month in Dalat, Vietnam, suggests it is not such an unlikely thought. The meeting was organised by the Lamont-Doherty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=917&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mitchener, Kris James and Ohnuki, Mari (2009) “Institutions, competition and capital market integration in Japan”, The Journal of Economic History, 69/1, 138-171.


Introduction
The causal relationship between finance and economic growth makes “understanding the factors that encourage capital market development […] a key question” (p.138). Meiji-era policy-maker recognized that “the geographical mobility of capital [was] critical to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=903&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blanchard I. (1986) The 16th-century European cattle trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 15:36:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blanchard, Ian (1986) “The Continental European Cattle Trades, 1400-1600”, The Economic History Review, 39/3, 427-460.


Introduction
The European international cattle trade arose in the 1470s out of a “context of a network of regional markets” for locally grazed animals (p.428). Antwerp for instance drew its supplies mostly from Zealand and Holland. The diminutive livestock trade was limited [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=886&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gelderblom O. (2005) The decline of fairs and merchant guilds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gelderblom, Oscar (2005) “The decline of Fairs and Merchant Guilds in the Low Countries, 1250-1650&#8243;, Economy and Society in the Low Countries before 1850, Working Paper 1, 47p.


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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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I am presently in Morocco for research purposes. As the things were getting a bit slow in the last few days due to the public holiday meant to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet, I decided to indulge in my geekiness and I undertook a micro research. I am fascinated by the elegance of economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=861&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bolton J.L. and Guidi Bruscoli F. (2008) When did Antwerp replace Bruges?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bolton, Jim L. and Guidi Bruscoli, Francesco (2008) “When did Antwerp replace Bruges as the commercial and financial centre of north-western Europe? The evidence of the Borromei ledger for 1438”, The Economic History Review, 61/2, 360-379.


This article is part of the on-going research project, the Borromei family and its banks in the fourteenth and fifteenth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=852&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sylla R. (2002) Financial sytems and economic growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sylla, Richard (2002) “Financial Systems and Economic Modernization”, The Journal of Economic History, 62/2, 277-292.


Introduction
The author answers the age-old question, “why isn’t the whole world developed?” by arguing that development differences can be explained by the “spread of modern financial systems, which serve to facilitate the acquisition and application of both nonhuman and human capital”. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=843&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epstein S. (2000) States and fairs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epstein, Stephan R. (2000) “States and fair”, in Freedom and Growth. The rise of states and markets in Europe, 1300-1750, Idem, Abingdon: Routeledge, 73-88.


New fairs everywhere
During the second half of the 14th century and the 15th century a great number of fairs were created around Europe. Testimony to their success, most of them lasted until [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=828&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Munro J. (2006) A non-mercantilist approach to the balance of payment problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Munro, John H. (2006) “South German silver, European textiles, and Venetian trade with the Levant and Ottoman Empire, c. 1370 to c. 1720: a non-Mercantilist approach to the balance of payment problem”, in Relazione economiche tra Europea e mondo islamico, seccoli XII – XVII, ed. Simonetta Cavaciocchi, Florence: Le Monnier, 905-960.


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		<title>A rare treat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the lecture notes for the University of Toronto Eco 301 class: European Economic History 1250-1750, by John H. Munro. Sort of über useful.

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		<title>Flag of our (grand-) fathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An amuzing post by Oliver Kamm on the contreversial historian Eric Hobsbawn.
See also 9 bizarre moments in economic history.
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		<title>Panzac D. (1992) Maritime trade of the Ottoman Empire in the 1700s</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Panzac, Daniel (1992) “International and Domestic Maritime trade in the Ottoman Empire during the 18th Century”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 24/2, 189-206.


Introduction
“A glance at a map shows what an important role the sea played in the vast empire of the Ottomans in the 18th century, linking as it did the three continents of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=790&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pamuk Ş. (1997) In Absence of Domestic Currency</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/pamuk-s-1997-in-absence-of-domestic-currency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pamuk, Şevket (1997) “In the Absence of Domestic Currency: Debased European Coinage in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire”, The Journal of Economic History, 57/2, 345-366.


Introduction
“For almost two decades during the middle of the seventeenth century, French, Italian, and Dutch merchants minted in southern France, northern Italy, and elsewhere in Europe large amounts of European coinage whose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=781&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Çizaka M. (1980) Europe and the desindustrialization of the Ottoman Empire</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/cizaka-m-1980-europe-and-the-desindustrialization-of-the-ottoman-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Çizakca, Murat (1980) “Price History and the Bursa Silk Industry: A Study in Ottoman Industrial Decline, 1550-1650”, The Journal of Economic History, 40/3, 533-550.


Introduction
“The Ottoman Empire, which covered most of Eastern Europe and the Near East in the sixteenth century, did not escape the worldwide inflation that is generally known as the ‘price revolution’” (p.533). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=773&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bulut M. (2002) Dutch and Ottoman commercial interactions</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/03/01/bulut-m-2002-dutch-and-ottoman-commercial-interactions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bulut, Mehmet (2002) “The Role of the Ottoman and Dutch in the Commercial Integration between the Levant and Atlantic in the Seventeenth Century”, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 45/2, 197-230.


Introduction
Large trade volume and significant bullion transfer testify of the advanced integration between the Ottoman Empire and Europe in the early [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=763&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faroqhi S (1980) Ottoman overland transportation</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/faroqhi-s-1980-ottoman-overland-transportation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Faroqhi, Suraiya (1982) “Camels, Wagons, and the Ottoman State in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 14/4, 523-539.

Introduction
Earlier research on the subject of Ottoman transport history have emphasized the role of the state in the system. Less attention has been paid to the “material bases of overland transportation” (p.523). The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=757&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ottoman week</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 17:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following that heated thread on allempires.net, I&#8217;ve decided to devote the next 5 posts to the Ottoman Empire. I&#8217;ll also try to pay more attention to non-European topics in the future. In particular, I&#8217;ll post a few things on Mughal India and Ming China soon.
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		<title>The history of the fur trade</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/the-history-of-the-fur-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic history of the American fur trade 1670-1870 on the encyclopedia of the earth.
More articles on eh.net here and here.
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		<title>History canal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[American canal building
Waterway triumphs

Feb 26th 2009
From The Economist print edition
AS SOME governments are about to rediscover, the actual construction work can be the easy part when embarking on large infrastructure projects. Winning the necessary political support is much harder, especially from legislators keen on alternative public works that more directly benefit their constituents. The competing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=749&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A good one</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/02/26/a-good-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[L. Monasterio on a 1974 article: here.
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		<title>Taking a break</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/taking-a-break/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately, I am now conducting research in Morocco and allthough it leaves me a lot of time to read, I don&#8217;t have a very reliable access to the internet, so I may be unable to post much on the blog for the coming month.
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		<title>A Thank You Note</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/a-thank-you-note/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unfortunately due to some very pressing commitments, I have to discontinue writing on the EH Blog, but I’m leaving you in very good hands with Benjamin. I want to thank all of you for allowing me to share some of my ideas with you. For me as brief as it was, this was a very [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=742&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Epstein S. R. (2000) The origins of protoindustry</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Epstein Stephen R. (2000) “The origins of protoindustry, c.1300-c.1550”, in idem Freedom and Growth. The rise of states and markets in Europe, 1300-1750, New York/London: Routledge/LSE, p.106-146.

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“The growth of rural and small town textile manufactures for regional and supra-regional markets was among the most significant features of the late medieval economy” (p.106). It is usually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=731&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of the Great Depression: an interview with Ben Bernanke</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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Submitted by Rich Marino
Lately, there has been never ending discussions about today’s government bailouts and stimulus packages within the context of currency devaluations, deflation, yesterday’s gold standard, and how all of this relates to the history of the Great Depression. All of this banter begs the question: what did we actually learn from this history? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=722&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed, 564 pages, 2009, Penguin Press</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rlmarino</dc:creator>
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A Book Review written by Rich Marino
A friend of mine who works for the New York Times sent me an email and told me that the newspaper planned to review a book that I might find interesting entitled: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed, a trustee with the Brookings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=685&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kanazawa S. (2004) The Savannah Principle</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kanazawa, Satoshi (2004) “The Savanna Principle”, Managerial and Decision Economics, 25/1, 41-54.


Introduction
Models designed and used by microeconomists commonly fail to predict actual human behaviours (p.41). The author proposes to use Evolutionary Psychology (EP) to overcome these shortfalls. Unlike Evolutionary Economics which deals mostly with the evolution of strategies and organizations, EP uses the substance of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=675&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dean T. (2008) Fornicating with nuns</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 07:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
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Valentine day special (on the trashy side)
Dean, Trevor (2008) “Fornicating with nuns in fifteenth-century Bologna”, Journal of Medieval History, 34/3, 374-382.
In the mid years of the 15th century, the penalties for abducting or having sex with nuns became increasingly harsh in Northern Italy. In Lucca, the mere attempt to engage in sexual relations with nuns [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=666&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Study Economic History</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rlmarino</dc:creator>
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Written by Rich Marino
 
A short time ago, Benjamin asked me to make a list of the ten books that have influenced me most in economic history. At first, I thought that wouldn’t take much effort and then I started thinking about it and the task became overwhelming. I can’t really pare down my interest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=655&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100th post!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A French show about the history of steel in Europe from La Fabrique de l&#8217;Histoire by Emanuel Morantin with Anne-Françoise Garçon, Catherine Verna, Maxime L&#8217;Héritier and Nicole Chezeau.
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greene, Molly (2000) Beyond the Northern invasion: the Mediterranean in the seventeenth century, Past and Present, 174, 41-70


At least since Fernand Braudel, the 17th century is supposed to be the moment the moment the Northern Europeans (English, Dutch and later French) ‘invaded’ the Mediterranean pushing aside effortlessly the old regional powers Spain, Venice and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=639&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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I&#8217;d also like to thank Richard for his precious contributions, which create lively bridges between history and contemporary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=620&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brenner, Robert (1976) “Agrarian class structure and economic development in pre-industrial Europe”, Past and Present, 70/1, 30-75. 


Introduction 
 In this article, the author offers one of the most commented “general interpretations of the processes of long-term economic change in late medieval and early modern Europe”. He rejects the rigid Malthusian theory based solely on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=600&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Current Dilemma and Modern Recession History</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Whenever I’m home, I am always more than amazed at the political debates that take place in my country. At this point in time, both the Senate and the House are at odds about the size and scope of the Obama stimulus package. On the Republican side, there seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=595&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ó Gráda, C. (2005) Market and famines in pre-industrial Europe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:54:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ó Gráda, Cormac (2005) “Market and famines in pre-industrial Europe”, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 36/2, 143-166.


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 What caused famines during the premodern period? According to Adam Smith, the government involvement in the grain trade did. Today, many tend to blame the shortcomings of the market (poverty, speculation) for the pre-industrial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=581&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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Nothing groundbreaking but it is interesting to remember how passionate were the debates back in the days. The guy who asks the question is really a mouthful. Besides, I guess one also has to wonder was Milton Freedman ever young or was he some sort of Benjamin Button character with a slight difference: he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=567&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pamuk, S. (2007) The Great European Divergence</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 16:04:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pamuk, Şevket (2007) “The Black Death and the origins of the ‘Great Divergence’ across Europe, 1300-1600”, European Review of Economic History, 11/3, 289-317.


Introduction 
Recent historiography has dramatically changed the way the impact of the Black Death on the European economy was perceived. It came to be seen as a ‘creative destruction’ process, a source of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=561&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God and Gold by Walter Russell Mead, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 10/2007, 449 pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
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A Book Review by Rich Marino
While in the midst of one of my physical therapy sessions at the Stanford Hospital, a young PhD, who’s coincidentally from London, told me about a book that she was reading entitled: God and Gold written by Walter Russell Mead a Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&blog=3081287&post=522&subd=premodeconhist&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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