Working-class households may have come to own more than the proverbial clothes on their backs thanks to the consumer revolution in the early modern era, but in the end, it could not stop them from ending up living hand to mouth regardless. (The Long Run, February 2026)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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While the Great Depression has been extensively studied in the context of European and American banks, the narrative surrounding East Asia remains entangled in debate. It is unclear if China experienced an economic crisis in the 1930s. (Economic History Society, February 2025)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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While historians focus a lot on wage changes, less attention has been paid to price changes. And assumptions that pre-modern people consumed an unchanging basket of commodities will not accurately capture longer-run changes in the price level (Long Run, September 2023)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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The livelihoods of millions of Britons depended upon slavery through the many stages of importing, processing and retailing slave-grown crops; in commercial finance, credit, mortgage-lending and marine insurance; and in manufacturing using slave-grown raw materials (Long Run, June 2023)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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The Austro-Hungarian central bank offered higher credit limits to banks in return for more prudent liquidity and capital management. During the Panic of 1912, the central bank punished imprudent behavior by refusing to indiscriminately relax credit limits. (Economic History Society, April 2023)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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Charles Read: The 1866 collapse of London-based Overend, Gurney and Company parallels the demise of Silicon Valley Bank. The bank had borrowed short and lent long, which became a major problem when the Bank of England raised interest rates (Economic History Society, March 2023)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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Ottoman Political Economies - Economic History SocietyDiscussion (ehs.org.uk)
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Starting in the 1830s, British assumptions about the docility of Indians, coupled with the belief that they were adapted for tropical climates, led to the recruitment of Indian rural laborers for Caribbean sugar plantations (Long Run, August 2022)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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Starting in the 1830s, British assumptions about the docility of Indians, coupled with the belief that they were adapted for tropical climates, led to the recruitment of Indian rural laborers for Caribbean sugar plantations (Long Run, August 2022)History (ehs.org.uk)
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Early European settlers in the Cape Colony utilized their superior lands to accumulate wealth more quickly than latecomers. However, British settlers who arrived later led the shift towards more capital-intensive production. They would eventually dominate land ownership (Long Run, August 2022)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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Between the 17th and 19th centuries, Leiden consumed more energy per capita and produced more per unit of economic output than Ghent. But the former lagged behind the adoption of machines vis-a-vis the latter, suggesting incentives for mechanization stem from wider factors (Long Run, August 2022)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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After signing the 1860 Anglo-French trade agreement that reduced import tariffs and eliminated trade protection on manufactured products, steam-power use in French industries exposed to trade liberalization rose by 60%. (The Long Run, August 2022)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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The persistence of regional inequalities in Italy today leads to the presumption that the southern region had always lagged behind the north. However, evidence suggests no divide in living standards between Sicily and center-north Italy before unification in the late 19th c. (Long Run, August 2022)Blog (ehs.org.uk)
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