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Institutionalisation and Institutional Evolution: A Model of Selecting Government Officials in Ancient China

Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The evolution of institutions in selecting government officials in ancient China reflected efficiency considerations and increased power concentration in the hands of the ruler. Selecting government officials in ancient China became more rule‐based over time, and standardisation and centralisation were some key features of this process.
Haiwen Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Optimal Scheduling of Microgrids Based on a Two-Population Cooperative Search Mechanism. [PDF]

Biomimetics (Basel)
Wei L, Zhong H.
europepmc   +1 more source

China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin, Atsushi Kobayashi, David Chilosi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Economic evaluation: costing participatory learning and action cycles with women's groups to improve feeding, care and dental hygiene for South Asian infants in London. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Zhang Y, Patil P, Chaudhary S, Kondhare KD, Faijue DD, Lakhanpaul M, Heys M, Drazdzewska J, Llewellyn CH, Webb-Martin K, Irish C, Archibong M, Gilmour J, Kalungi P, Skordis J, Manikam L, Batura N, NEON Steering Team.   +17 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
wiley   +1 more source

Industrial upgrading and new quality productive forces: evidence from Chinese industrial parks. [PDF]

Front Public Health
Li C, Wang M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
wiley   +1 more source

A multicenter micro-costing analysis of flexible cystoscopic procedures in Korea. [PDF]

Investig Clin Urol
Je U, Han WK, Jeong HK, Lee H, Lee KS, Kang SK, Kwon BJ, Kuh SU.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Electrifying long-haul freight trucks reduces societal costs in the United States. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Porzio J, McNeil W, Tong F, Moura S, Auffhammer M, Scown CD.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source