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		<title>Karine van der Beek op de Industriële Revolutie</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 08:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>What my credit can do in (medieval) Venice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mueller, Reinhold C. (1987) I banchi locali a Venezia nel Tardo Medioevo. Studi Storici, 28/1: 145-55. There is a lot to be admired in Austrian economists, their resilience, their attachment to simple elegant ideas and their sound understanding of the long-term factors that give the economy its cyclical nature. But one must admit that their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2349&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lest we forget life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2012 10:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Brits celebrate the young men how have fallen for the crown, numerous touching stories are told in the papers. This one by Caroline Green in The Telegraph caught my eye. All too often, life is crowded out of war stories. We concentrate on dramatic events such as battles, sieges, the absence of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2347&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Separating property and housing market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Spectator, the ever-brilliant Rory Sutherland uses a 19th-century Barbados example to make an excellent economic point: If the all-party Parliamentary Housing Sub-Committee were to embark on a week-long fact-finding tour of Barbados, it would create a tabloid scandal. Yet it might be a good idea all the same. For among the palm trees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2341&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When a giant dies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Danny Boyle must be an happy fellow. The man who directed the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony made no mystery of his very critical view of the Industrial Revolution: that dark, unfair, flesh-eating process which brought an insignificant green island to the position of sole world power for almost two centuries. To Danny&#8217;s great relief, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2322&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>First occurrence of Breton Shirt</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The battle of the piggy banks with the money doses</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t know this piece by Pieter Bruegel. That&#8217;s the only interesting thing I got from Niall Ferguson&#8217;s  BBC series the Ascent of Money. The show&#8217;s dismal and often out right inaccurate. Worse, instead of the promise financial history of the world, we get a third rate finance class with, admittedly, historical examples. It&#8217;s completely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2289&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The bare necessities will come to you</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2011/02/07/the-bare-necessities-will-come-to-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; or then again maybe not. Looking at that table, I wonder if the level beneath but close to 0.5 has any value as such, like minimum purchasing power necessary to survive. OK I should go through the paper, but really Robert Allen is seldom the funniest read ever. &#160; From DJ r.a.c. via MC [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2284&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finance and gambling in early modern Europe or why Arrow-Debreu can be fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge fund managers playing poker and investment gurus using their skills in casinos are part of the contemporary mythology surrounding the world of finance. This makes it surprising that when Merton listed the functions performed by financial markets and institutions he did not include a very important one: entertainment. Had he considered early modern Europe, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2268&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ngrams</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 19:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK I haven&#8217;t understood how it works yet, but I&#8217;m already having a hell lot of fun with Google&#8217;s Ngram (thanks Sarah). View of the world View of the world II (not sure how to interpret it) War and peace, the French and the Brits don&#8217;t agree Birth of a concept &#8230; and the rise [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2246&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saito, O. and T. Settsu: one banker v. seven samurais</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/saito-o-and-t-settsu-one-banker-v-seven-samurais/</link>
		<comments>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/20/saito-o-and-t-settsu-one-banker-v-seven-samurais/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 01:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reading notes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Osaka]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proto-industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rural industries]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wholesalers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Saito, Osamu and Tokihiko Settsu (2006) Money, credit and Smithian growth in Tokugawa Japan. Hitotsubashi University. Institute of Economic Research. Discussion Paper #139. In Osaka, Japan&#8217;s commercial capital, under the Tokugawa, rich merchants began to add to their functions that of lender to the mighty overlords (daymo) who needed to transform the production of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2242&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my desk</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/my-desk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[personal stuff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Filed under: personal stuff<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2235&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opper S. (1993): the incredible story of the fleeing Dutchmen</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/opper-s-1993-the-incredible-story-of-the-fleeing-dutchmen/</link>
		<comments>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/13/opper-s-1993-the-incredible-story-of-the-fleeing-dutchmen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bonds]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Loans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netherlands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oppers, Stefan E. (1993) The Interest Rate Effect of Dutch Money in Eighteen-Century Britain. The Journal of Economic History, 53/1: 25-43. Dutch citizens invested heavily in Britain over the 18th century. Even though the English themselves regarded this phenomenon as a necessary evil, it greatly help the Crown to levy the necessary capital for its expenses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2228&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There are many houses in the house of growth</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/there-are-many-houses-in-the-house-of-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/there-are-many-houses-in-the-house-of-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was reminded of the distinction made by Joel Mokyr, in the Lever of Riches, between the four types of growth: The Solovian growth, after Robert Solow, which is driven by an increase of the saving rate leading to more investment and thus a jump of the production per unit of labor. The Smithian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2218&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Self promotion</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/self-promotion/</link>
		<comments>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/10/self-promotion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 10:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to become a keen wikipedian. So here are the articles I&#8217;ve contributed to so far. The bank of Scali Institutional investors Chronology of European banking (in French, article still not up to standards will be working on it). The economy of Corsica (in French, already a few years old, should be updated). Economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2213&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hoffman, P., Postel-Vinay, G. and Rosenthal, J.-L. …and notaries never became bankers</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/hoffman-philip-t-postel-vinay-g-and-rosenthal-j-l-%e2%80%a6and-notaries-never-became-bankers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 22:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Early Modern]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reading notes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hoffman, Philip T., Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (2001) Notaries, Banking and the Expansion of Credit in Old-Regime Paris, chapter 7 in Priceless Markets. The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London; p.136-176. Some of the ideas developed in this chapter have been presented elsewhere, so this summary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2205&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More on US public debt</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/more-on-us-public-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/more-on-us-public-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 22:20:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1900s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2000s]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an impressive infographic by the Chicago Tribune, on the national debt of the United States, 1940-2010. Found via Visualizing Economics. Filed under: America, Economic History, United States Tagged: 1900s, 2000s, public finance, USA<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2201&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The socialist within</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/the-socialist-within/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 03:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic History]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[1900s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2000s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[public finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Friday night in this side of the Western hemisphere, so, what the heck. I think you might find it funny. Here&#8217;s a bit of U. S. public debt history. Found via The Big Picture. Filed under: America, Economic History, United States Tagged: 1900s, 2000s, crisis, financial history, public finance, USA<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2196&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your weekly dose of AMHE news</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/your-weekly-dose-of-amhe-news/</link>
		<comments>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/your-weekly-dose-of-amhe-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:58:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agenda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history of economics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All of these links are either in English or French. :) &#8211;&#62; News Latest EHSANZ Newsletter &#8211;&#62; Events Colloque MASCIPO : &#8220;LES EMPIRES DU MONDE ATLANTIQUE EN RÉVOLUTION&#8221; Seminar &#8220;Past and present: from the Great Depression of the 20th  century to the Great Recession of the 21st century&#8221; Valencia, 13-14 May, 2010 Conference: &#8216;Distribution Networks [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2192&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your weekly dosis of AMHE news</title>
		<link>http://premodeconhist.wordpress.com/2010/05/07/your-weekly-dosis-of-amhe-news/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 17:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Manuel Bautista</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic History]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Disclaimer: Yes, we all know that both Ben and I have neglected this blog. It is time to catch up. But until we reach the lost momentum, you&#8217;ll have to live with our publishing choices. Now, on to some news, courtesy of the Mexican Economic History Association. News Newsletter, 1 de Mayo de 2010 de [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2187&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Béguin K. (2005) Finance in times of uncertainty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 09:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Béguin, Katia (2005) La circulation des rentes constituées dans la France du XVIIe siècle. Une approche de l’incertitude économique. Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 60/5 : 1229-1244. Molière &#8220;L&#8217;Avare&#8221; Priceless markets In early modern France, interest rates seldom varied; on the other hand what did determined price of financial assets was their idiosyncratic risk. The reputation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2180&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindleberger C. (1991) An early manic episod</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 14:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kindleberger, Charles P. (1991) The economic Crisis of 1619 and 1623. The Journal of Economic History, 51/1 : 149-175. Introduction The early European 17th century has commonly been described as the troublesome transition from a medieval to a modern economy (p.149). The multi-layered crisis of 1619-23 is a perfect embodiment of the woes of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2166&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the day: Adam Smith on small states</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The currency of a great state, such as France or England, generally consists almost entirely of its own coin. Should this currency therefore be at any time, worn, clipt or otherwise degraded below its standard value, the state by a reformation of its coin can effectively re-establish its currency. But the currency of a small [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2158&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Buchinsky M. &amp; Polak B. (1993) Dieu, mon droit and an integrated capital market</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buchinsky, Moshe &#38; Ben Polak (1993) The Emergence of a National Capital Market in England, 1710-1880. The Journal of Economic History, 53/1: 1-24. Introduction: the invisible hand is hard to see “Two economic ‘revolutions’ took place in eighteenth-century England: an industrial revolution in the North and a financial revolution in the South”.  Of course historians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2148&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100,000th hits!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 00:28:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[yeah! Posted in Economic History<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2146&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caporale T. and Grier K. (2000) On why the sheriff still matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Caporale, Tony and Kevin B. Grier (2000) Political Regime Change and the Real Interest Rate, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 32/3: 320-334. Intro A number of influential macroeconomic models, from Keynes to the monetarists, assume that real interest rates (i.e. discounted for inflation) change over time and are sensitive to their political environment, other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2135&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who said a grenade launcher could not be a perfect financial asset?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new form on finance on the coast of Somalia. I particularly enjoyed this part: Piracy investor Sahra Ibrahim, a 22-year-old divorcee, was lined up with others waiting for her cut of a ransom pay-out after one of the gangs freed a Spanish tuna fishing vessel. &#8220;I am waiting for my share after I contributed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2131&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Finding new models</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FT: Organic mechanics By Clive Cookson, Gillian Tett and Chris Cook What do you call a financier in search of the iron laws of human behaviour? Answer: someone with a bad case of “physics envy”. That is the peculiar psychological disorder diagnosed by Andrew Lo, a professor of financial engineering, as afflicting bankers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2126&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Coates J., Gurnell M. &amp; Rustichini A. (2009) Girls can&#8217;t trade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:37:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coates, John M., Mark Gurnell and Aldo Rustichini (2009) Second-to-fourth digit ratio predicts success among high-frequency financial traders. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 106/2: 623-8. Introduction What does traders&#8217; success on the market floor depend on? Earlier studies have shown that one&#8217;s level of testosterone did affect one&#8217;s daily results. Since &#8220;prenatal androgens [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2120&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time to worry? Financial history matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In today&#8217;s FT Posted in Economic History<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2117&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saad G. &amp; Vongas J. (2009) What bling really does to you</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saad, Gad and John G. Vongas (2009) The effect of conspicuous consumption on men’s testosterone levels. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 110/2: 80-92. Introduction (longue one) Thorstein Veblen coined the expression conspicuous consumption in 1899 to refer to goods which principal aim was to be displayed, advertise one’s wealth and impress one’s peers (p.80). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2106&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DuPlessis R. &amp; Howell M. (1982) Killing capitalism in its craddle (twice)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DuPlessis, Robert S. and Martha C. Howell (1982) Reconsidering the Early Modern Urban Economy : The Case of Leiden and Lille. Past and Present, 94/, 49-84. In Marx’s view, capitalism had arisen in the late Middle Ages out of a production system dominated by lords and guilds. In this framework, urban economies can be regarded [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2099&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Charity in everything &#8212; the boobs issues</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Italy, the law of 1862 recognized as &#8220;pious organization&#8221; along with orphanages and hospitals: &#8220;public breastfeeding places&#8221; (&#8220;i ricoveri per gli allattamenti in commune degli infanti&#8221;). I have no idea what it might look like, but surely it ought to have been a sight worth seeing. source Emidia Vagnoni, Enrico Bracci and Laura Maran [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2096&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On cognitive functions interrupted (and the growth of two retail corporations in the US)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2094&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2084&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2079&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2074&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2065&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2062&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2060&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2043&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2039&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2026&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2016&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2012&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
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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&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=2009&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=1995&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=1983&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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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		<description><![CDATA[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&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=1981&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="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 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=premodeconhist.wordpress.com&#038;blog=3081287&#038;post=1974&#038;subd=premodeconhist&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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