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1.
Waiting for Technology: Path Dependence as a Random Walk
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 08 Nov 1999
Working Paper Series
Technology & Policy Research Initiative, BU School of Law
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2.
A Mark of Distinction: Branding and Trade Mark Law in the UK from the 1860s
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2009
Working Paper Series
Independent
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357
3.
The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1302
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 05 Nov 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics
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338
4.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism the Haugian Way
NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 1/2012
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 04 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi / Department of Economics Norges Handelshøyskole / Norwegian School of Economics
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321
5.
The Expansion of Trade and the Development of European Industry to 1600
Dartmouth Economics Working Paper No. 00-20
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 20 Mar 2001
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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6.
Calculating Profit: A Historical Perspective on the Development of Capitalism
Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 205-221, February 2010
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 21 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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7.
At the Centre of the Old World: Reinterpreting Venetian Economic History
University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper No. 50/06
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 30 Nov 2006
Working Paper Series
Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management
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8.
The Impact of Financial and Product Market Innovation on the Nature of Entrepreneurship: A Historical Perspective
Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 17-03
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 28 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS), University of Leeds - Credit Management Research Centre and Nottingham University Business School
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9.
Capital Market Efficiency in the British Industrial Revolution: The Case of the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1760-1840
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 01 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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10.
Looking for Work? Or Looking for Workers? Days and Hours of Work in London Construction in the Eighteenth Century
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 03 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Wadham College
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135
11.
Convergence among Italian Regions, 1861-2011
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 22
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 26 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Bank of Italy, University of Rome I and University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
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12.
Real Contracts and Mistaken Wages: The Organisation of Work and Pay in London Building Trades 1650-1800
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 29 Jan 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Wadham College
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13.
Through Eyes in the Storm: Aspects of the Personal History of Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 11 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
Federal Communications Commission
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Through Eyes in the Storm: Aspects of the Personal History of Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 11 Feb 2005
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Through Eyes in the Storm: Aspects of the Personal History of Women Workers in the Industrial Revolution
Social History
Posted: 24 Nov 1997
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14.
Catching-Up and Falling Behind - Knowledge Spillover from American to German Machine Tool Makers
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 04 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 13 Dec 2009
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Mannheim
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15.
Subcontracting and Vertical Integration in the Spanish Cotton Industry
UPF Working Paper No. 816
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 17 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics
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16.
Creating Firms for a New Century: Determinants of Firm Creation Around 1900
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1065
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 10 Nov 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Tuebingen - Department of Economics
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17.
A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 217-242, 2001
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 18 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of California at Irvine
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18.
Old and New Ceramics: Manufacturers, Products and Markets in the Venetian Republic in the 17th and 18th Centuries
University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 05/06
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Working Paper Series
Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management
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19.
Regional Industrialisation Without National Growth: The Catalan Industrialization and the Growth of Spanish Economy (1830-1861)
UPF Economics and Business Working Paper No. 716
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 11 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics
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20.
Una Interpretación Neoclásica del Fin del Galeón de Manila (A Neoclassical Interpretation of Manila Galleon End)
Contribuciones a la Economía, September 2011,
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 15 Jan 2012
Last Revised: 16 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
New York University--Abu Dhabi
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21.
Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Pembroke College, Oxford and University of Oxford
There are 2 versions of this paper
Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
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Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8655
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 24 Nov 2011
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6
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22.
On the Unimportance of Machinery
Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1985
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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23.
Old and New Italian Multinational Firms
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 15
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
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24.
Auditing Practices of British Gas Companies from 1812 to 1830
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 22 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
Hokkaido University - Graduate School of Economics & Business Administration and Osaka Sangyo University
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Were British Cotton Entrepeneurs Technologically Backward? Firm-Level Evidence on the Adoption of Ring-Spinning
Explorations in Economic History, Volume 47, Issue 4 (October 2010), pp. 487-504
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 14 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 19 Apr 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Virginia - Department of Economics
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26.
Genesis of the Double Account System: A Case Study of a UK Gas Company at the Beginning of the 19th Century
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 22 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
Hokkaido University - Graduate School of Economics & Business Administration and Osaka Sangyo University
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Through the Magnifying Glass: Provincial Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post-Unification Italy
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 15 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics and Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica
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Through the Magnifying Glass: Provincial Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post-Unification Italy
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 15 Mar 2013
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Through the Magnifying Glass: Provincial Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post‐Unification Italy
The Economic History Review, Vol. 66, Issue 1, pp. 57-85, 2013
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 19 Dec 2012
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Amateur or Professional? A New Look at 19th Century Patentees in Norway
NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 12/2012
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 01 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
Norwegian School of Economics (NHH) - Department of Economics
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The English Cotton Spinning Industry, 1780-1840, as Revealed in the Columns of the London Gazette
Miami Univ. Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 2009.06
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 14 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 27 Jul 2010
Working Paper Series
Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) - Faculty of Economic, Social and Political Sciences and Miami University of Ohio - Department of Economics
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When Corporatism Leads to Corporate Governance Failure: The Case of the Swiss Watch Industry
Schluep Campo, I. and Aerni, P. 2016. When Corporatism Leads to Corporate Governance Failure: The Case of the Swiss Watch Industry. Banson, Cambridge, UK.
Number of pages: 124
Posted: 22 Aug 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Center for Corporate Responsbility and Sustainability and Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability (CCRS) at the University of Zurich
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31.
Height and Industrialisation in a City in Catalonia During the Nineteenth Century
UB Economics Working Papers E15/334
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 23 Dec 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Barcelona and University of Murcia
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32.
Wages and Prices in Early Catalan Industrialisation
UB Economics Working Papers E14/305
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 06 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Valencia and University of Barcelona - Faculty of Economic Science and Business Studies
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33.
The Study of the Double Account System at the Gas Light and Coke Company
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 03 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
Hokkaido University - Graduate School of Economics & Business Administration and Osaka Sangyo University
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Tarantinos Texts that Have Been Preserved in Palladius Work 'Opus Agriculturae' and Agricultural Encyclopedia – Geoponika
Ekonomika, Vol 61, Issue 4, pp 11-12, 2015
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 27 Oct 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Institute of Agricultural Economics (IEA) Belgrade, Republic of Serbia and University of Pristine, Faculty of Economics
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35.
An Economic History of Troon
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 01 Aug 2019
Working Paper Series
University of the Witwatersrand, LINK Centre
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The Fruits of Disaggregation: The Engineering Industry, Tariff Protection, and the Industrial Investment Cycle in Italy, 1861-1913
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 41
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 05 Dec 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Turin
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37.
Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8655
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 24 Nov 2011
Working Paper Series
Pembroke College, Oxford and University of Oxford
There are 2 versions of this paper
Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
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Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8655
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 24 Nov 2011
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38.
The Age Distribution of the Labour Force as Evidence of Prior Events: The Italian Data for 1911 and the Long Swing in Investment from Unification to the Great War
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 42
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 14 Feb 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Rome, Tor Vergata - Department of Economics and Finance, Students
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Patents, International Technology Transfer and Industrial Dependence in 19th Century Spain
Sáiz, Patricio (2003): “Patents, International Technology Transfer and Spanish Industrial Dependence (1759‐1878)”, in L. Hilaire‐Pérez et A. F. Garçon (dirs.) Les chemins de la nouveauté. Innover, inventer au regard de l’histoire, Paris, Editions du CTHS (223-245),
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 12 Dec 2019
Working Paper Series
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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Trayectorias tecnológicas de las máquinas térmicas e industrial del motor en España (Thermal Machines Technological Trajectories and Engine Industry in Spain)
Amengual, Rubén y Sáiz, Patricio (2007): “Trayectorias tecnológicas de las máquinas térmicas e industrial del motor en España”, en P. Pascual y P. Fernández (eds.): Del metal al motor. Innovación y atraso en la historia de la industria metalmecánica española, Bilbao, FBBVA (53-126),
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 06 Jan 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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The Location of the UK Cotton Textiles Industry in 1838: A Quantitative Analysis
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9626
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 03 Sep 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Warwick and Humboldt University Berlin - Department of Economics
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