After Columbus: Explaining the Global Trade Boom 1500-1800 [PDF]
This paper documents the size and timing of the world inter-continental trade boom following the greate voyages in the 1490s of Columbus, da Gama and their followers. Indeed, a trade boom followed over the subsequent three centuries.
J. G. Williamson, K. H. O'Rourke
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An overview of Mesopotamian bronze metallurgy during the 3rd millennium BC [PDF]
, 2005 A
ADAMS, F, Adriaens, Mieke, DE RYCK, I
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Aberdeen's 'Toun College': Marischal College, 1593-1623 [PDF]
, 2007 While debate has arisen in the past two decades regarding the foundation of Edinburgh University, by contrast the foundation and early development of Marischal College, Aberdeen, has received little attention.
Reid, S.J.
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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later [PDF]
In his seminal publications between the 1930s and 1960s, Frederick Lane offered three hypotheses regarding the impact of the Voyages of Discovery that have guided debate ever since. First, pepper and other spice prices did not rise in European markets in
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Kevin H. O'Rourke
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A Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment [PDF]
, 2009 A study of a medieval gentlewoman, Lady Sibylle Boys, and her cultural context, including her patronage of poetry by John Lydgate, the 'Epistle to Sibylle' and 'Treatise for Lauandres'
Bale, Anthony
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From Malthus to Ohlin: Trade, Growth and Distribution Since 1500 [PDF]
A recent endogenous growth literature has focused on the transition from a Malthusian world where real wages were linked to factor endowments, to one where modern growth has broken that link.
Jeffrey G. Williamson, Kevin H. O'Rourke
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Money, prices, wages, and ‘profit inflation’ in Spain, the Southern Netherlands, and England during the Price Revolution era, ca. 1520 - ca. 1650 [PDF]
This article re-examines Earl Hamilton’s famous 1929 thesis on ‘Profit Inflation’ and the ‘birth of modern industrial capitalism’: namely, that the inflationary forces of the Price Revolution era produced a widening gap between prices and wages, thus ...
Munro, John H.
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Prices, Wages, and Prospects for 'Profit Inflation' in England, Brabant, and Spain, 1501 - 1670: A Comparative Analysis [PDF]
This paper re-examines Earl Hamilton's famous 1929 thesis on 'Profit Inflation' and the 'birth of modern industrial capitalism': namely, that the inflationary forces of the Price Revolution era produced a widening gap between prices and wages, thus ...
John Munro
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The Usury Doctrine and Urban Public Finances in Late-Medieval Flanders: Annuities, Excise Taxes, and Income Transfers from the Poor to the Rich [PDF]
The objectives of this paper are three-fold. The first is to rebut Charles Kindleberger�s famous dictum that usury �belongs less to economic history than to the history of ideas�; and in particular to demonstrate that the resuscitation of the anti ...
John H. Munro
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Pre-Eighteenth-Century Traditions of Revivalism: Damascus in the Thirteenth Century [PDF]
, 2005 This article examines whether it is possible to trace eighteenth and nineteenth-century revivalist thought to earlier ‘medieval’ examples. The discussion is centred on the issue of ijtihad/taqlid, which featured prominently in revivalist thought.
Hirschler, Konrad
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