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Networks paving the way: Apprenticeship, guilds, and access to mastership in early modern Genoa

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates how kinship and professional networks shaped labour market outcomes in the guild‐based labour market of early modern Genoa. Using a newly constructed dataset of more than 8,000 apprenticeship contracts (1451–1530), I examine the extent to which family and guild connections influenced apprentices' chances of attaining ...
Alessandro Brioschi
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Robinson Crusoe’s Accounting and Bookkeeping on Desert Island

open access: yesAdvances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, 2022
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The depth and breadth of capitalism at the Cape

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Limited liability company legislation was introduced to the Cape Colony in 1861. An amendment in 1892 led to wider adoption, expanding and diversifying the capital market. Using novel data from the Cape Joint Stock Archive between 1892 and 1902, this paper examines who invested, where capital flowed, and how these patterns shaped firm outcomes
Edward Kerby, Lloyd Melusi Maphosa
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Hunting for Hollanders: The community responsibility system, trade sanctions, and public debt in the late‐medieval Low Countries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract To persuade creditors to lend, cities in the Low Countries relied on a community responsibility system that made all citizens personally liable for public debt. This exposed itinerant citizens to significant risks: their merchandise could be confiscated by creditors, and they could even be imprisoned for debt.
Jaco Zuijderduijn
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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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Banks and the economy: Evidence from the Irish bank strike of 1966

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper studies the macroeconomic impact of the Irish bank strike of 1966, which led to the closure of the major commercial banks for 3 months. We collect a variety of new evidence, such as high‐frequency macro data, economic forecasts, micro data and narrative sources.
Emma Horgan, Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard
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