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Piecework forms of hiring workers in the landowner’s household of the Tambov Governorate at the late 19th century

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2020
We describe the working conditions of piecework workers of landowner’s household of Tambov Governorate at the late 19th century. We analyze the specifics of early forms of employment, the amount of wages, and the relationship between the employee and the
R. M. Zhitin
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Socio-economic description of peasant class of south Ural and middle Volga region in the second half of XIX century [PDF]

, 2015
Despite the reform of the serfdom abolition, the poorest peasants of the Uralsand the Volga region could not move tocities and towns. Most peasants remained invarious kinds of dependence and could not substantially change the nature of agricultural ...
Petrov, V., Петров, В. И.
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Institutions, history, antagonisms, and development: the contributions of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Volume 127, Issue 3, Page 511-575, July 2025.
Abstract The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity”.
Elias Papaioannou
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Vanishing turning point. Piotr Chmielowski’s difficulties with periodization of the “recent Polish literature”

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2012
[An outline of the literature of the last sixteen years] written by Piotr Chmielowski was designed in the author’s intention as a sketch of “rather journalistic than historical features”.
Marek Wedeman
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How Margaret Thatcher's Ideology Emboldened Her to Bite the Anti‐inflationary Bullet

Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 49-61, March 2025.
To reduce the rate of inflation, Margaret Thatcher followed a policy of tight money. Milton Friedman in reviewing this policy predicted that it would lead to a modest reduction in output and employment (that) will be a side effect of reducing inflation to single figures by 1982, Friedman (1980, p. 14, my emphasis).
Ian M. McDonald
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Economic inequality, culture, and governance quality

Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 375-402, February 2025.
Abstract We review work that has linked economic inequality and culture to governance quality. We start with contributions that have considered the relationship between inequality and governance from a long‐run perspective. This historical perspective yields a range of insights and helps identify the deep drivers of specific cultural traits that relate
Andreas P. Kyriacou
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Peasants in self-government bodies in the second half of the XIX and early XX century (based on the materials of Vyatka province)

Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2020
The article aims to study the problem of peasants participation in the bodies of rural, volost (parish), and Zemstvo self-government in the 18601910-ies.
A. M. Subbotina
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The human capital of Central-Eastern and Eastern Europe in European perspective [PDF]

We trace the development of numeracy in Poland and Russia from the early 17th century onwards, and numeracy in Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania from the 18th century onwards. The fact that western Poland was doing relatively well during the 16th and early
Jörg Baten, Mikolaj Szoltysek
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Prémisses à une libération : la réforme de soi dans À la veille de Tourguéniev

ILCEA, 2013
This study aims to show that, On the Eve of Turgeniev, that was published in 1859, is in spite of appearances, a political novel and beyond the very romantic story of love, that constitutes the frame, it is also a reflection on freedom, that should be ...
Thierry Ozwald
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Privilegiu și emancipare. Petițiile românilor villani din suburbii către Sfatul orașului Bistrița în perioada tereziană târzie și în cea iosefină 1770–1784 [PDF]

Revista Bistriţei
This study examines the socio-legal dynamics between the Romanian peri-urban population (villani) of Bistrița and the privileged Saxon urban community during the late Theresian and early Josephinian reforms (1770–1784).
Dr. Marin POPAN
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