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THE FINANCIAL POWER OF THE POWERLESS: Evidence from Ottoman Istanbul on socio-economic status, legal protection and the cost of borrowing
7 Jun, 2018
In Ottoman Istanbul, privileged groups such as men, Muslims and other elites paid more for credit than the under-privileged...
Perpetuating the family name: female inheritance, in-marriage and gender norms
5 Jun, 2018
by Duman Bahrami-Rad (Simon Fraser University) Why is it so common for Muslims to marry their cousins (more than...
Winning the capital, winning the war: retail investors in the First World War
29 May, 2018
by Norma Cohen (Queen Mary University of London)   The First World War brought about an upheaval in British...
Medieval origins of Spain’s economic geography
22 May, 2018
The frontier of medieval warfare between Christian and Muslim armies in southern Spain provides a surprisingly powerful explanation of...
THE IMPACT OF MALARIA ON EARLY AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT: Evidence from the sickle cell trait
17 May, 2018
While malaria historically claimed millions of African lives, it did not hold back the continent’s economic development. That is...
EFFECTS OF COAL-BASED AIR POLLUTION ON MORTALITY RATES: New evidence from nineteenth century Britain
15 May, 2018
Industrialised cities in mid-nineteenth century Britain probably suffered from similar levels of air pollution as urban centres in China...
IMPERIAL ROOTS OF TODAY’S GLOBAL TRADE: Evidence from 140 empires
10 May, 2018
by Wessel Vermeulen (Newcastle University), Gunes Gokmen (New Economic School, Moscow), and Pierre-Louis Vézina (King’s College London)   The rise and...
An Economic History of Europe: Knowledge, Institutions and Growth, 600 to the Present – 2nd Edition Cambridge University Press, 2015
8 May, 2018
by Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark) The purchase price of this book is discounted by 20 per cent...
The Deindustrialized World
3 May, 2018
by Andrew Perchard (University of Stirling), Lachlan MacKinnon (St Mary’s University – Nova Scotia), and Steven High (Concordia University...
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: narratives of economic life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit
24 Apr, 2018
by Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow)   ‘It’s the economy stupid’, like most clichés, both reveals and conceals important...
Land reform and agrarian conflict in 1930s Spain
19 Apr, 2018
Jordi Domènech (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Francisco Herreros (Institute of Policies and Public Goods, Spanish Higher Scientific...
How did investors view the reforms and supervisory organisations of the late nineteenth century?
17 Apr, 2018
by Avni Önder Hanedar (Sakarya University) In the last couple of decades, high debt burden in emerging economies created...
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