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

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 684-716, May 2026.
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
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 299-322, May 2026.
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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Parliamentary Debate and Job Market Signaling in Westminster Systems

open access: yesLegislative Studies Quarterly, Volume 51, Issue 2, May 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines parliamentary speech as a job‐market signal in Westminster systems, where ministers are selected from the legislature under conditions of informational asymmetry. Building on signaling theory, it argues that party leaders use visible, effortful parliamentary activities—such as frequent speechmaking—as proxies for latent ...
Pat Leslie
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