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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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466
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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392
3.
The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 05 Nov 2004
Working Paper Series
All Souls College, Oxford
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368
4.
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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366
5.
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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342
6.
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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215
7.
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 - Faculty of Business
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211
8.
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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178
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 - Faculty of Business
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161
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
UCL Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management
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161
11.
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 - Faculty of Business, University of Leeds - Credit Management Research Centre and Nottingham University Business School
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157
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
UCL Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management
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133
13.
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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125
14.
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
There are 2 versions of this paper
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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122
15.
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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119
16.
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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112
17.
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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99
18.
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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95
19.
Creating Firms for a New Century: Determinants of Firm Creation Around 1900
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 10 Nov 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Tuebingen - Department of Economics
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94
20.
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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89
21.
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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87
22.
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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84
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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84
24.
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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83
25.
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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73
26.
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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1
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27.
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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60
28.
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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53
29.
Not Backward: Comparative Labour Productivity In British And Russian Manufacturing, Circa 1908
Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 199/HUM/2020
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 16 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
National Research University Higher School of Economics, S.I.Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology and University of Ontario Institute of Technology
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30.
Shareholder Democracy Under Autocracy: Voting Rights and Corporate Performance in Imperial Russia
European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 773/2021
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 09 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 11 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Middlebury College and Williams College
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50
31.
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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50
32.
Continuity and Change in Construction Procurement
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 30 Jun 2021
Working Paper Series
School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney and Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London
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44
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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39
34.
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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37
35.
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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29
36.
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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29
37.
The Births, Lives, and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia
BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 26/2020
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 05 Jan 2021
Working Paper Series
Middlebury College and Williams College
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28
38.
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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28
39.
Trayectorias tecnológicas de las máquinas térmicas e industrial del motor en España (Thermal Machines Technological Trajectories and Engine Industry in Spain)
UAM Working Papers in Economic History, nº 03/2005, ISSN: 1885-6888
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 06 Jan 2020
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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40.
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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20
41.
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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42.
Financing Nascent Industry: Leverage, Politics, and Performance in Imperial Russia
BOFIT Discussion Paper No. 7/2020
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 22 Jan 2021
Working Paper Series
Middlebury College and Williams College
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10
43.
Patents, International Technology Transfer and Industrial Dependence in 19th Century Spain
UAM Working Papers in Economic History, nº 01/2003, ISSN: 1885-6888
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 12 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2021
Working Paper Series
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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44.
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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7
45.
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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84
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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46.
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 Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)Humboldt University Berlin - Department of Economics
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