The Economic History Working Paper Series was launched in 1992. Contributions to the series have been made by members of staff of the Economic History department, academic visitors, and research students. Subject matters have been wide ranging and diverse.
We no longer produce printed versions, but papers published from 2000 onwards are available online in PDF format. If you don't have the Adobe Acrobat Reader on your computer, download it from Adobe.
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Nº 251 The role of Demesnes in the Trade of Agricultural Horses i Late Medieval England
Jordan Claridge
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Nº 250 Multiple Core Regions: Regional Inequality in Switzerland,1860 to 2008
Christian Stohr
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Nº 249 Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930
B. Zorina Khan
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Nº 248 Prestige and Profit: The Royal Society of Arts and Incentives for Innovation and Enterprise, 1750-1850
B. Zorina Khan
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Nº 247 Designing Women: Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
B. Zorina Khan
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Nº 246 Monetary Versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts Of Interest Rates And Credit Controls In The Era Of The UK Radcliffe Report
Daniel Aikman, Oliver Bush, Alan M. Taylor
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Nº 245 Trading gains: New Estimates of Swiss GDP, 1851 to 2008
Christian Stohr
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Nº 244 A Rational Path towards A Pareto Optimum for Reforms of Large State-owned Enterprise in China, Past, Present and Future
Xiaojie Liu, Jim Huangnan Shen, Kent Deng
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Nº 243 Were Indian famines ‘natural’ or ‘manmade’?
Tirthankar Roy
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Nº 242 Medieval Market Making; Brokerage Regulations in Central Western Europe, ca. 1250-1700
Lars Boerner
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Nº 241Medieval Matching Markets
Lars Boerner, Daniel Quint
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Nº 240 Puncturing the Malthus Delusion: Structural change in the British economy before the industrial revolution, 1500-1800
Patrick Wallis, Justin Colson, David Chilosi
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Nº 239 The revealed comparative advantages of late-Victorian Britain
Brian Varian
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Nº 238 The effects of market integration: trade and welfare during the first globalization, 1815-1913
David Chilosi, Giovanni Federico
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Nº 237 The 1920 Japanese Income Tax Reform: Government, Business and Democratic Constraints
Shunsuke Nakaoka, Kokushikan University
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Nº 236 Benefits of Empire? Capital Market Integration North and South of the Alps, 1350-1800
David Chilosi, Max-Stephan Schulze, Oliver Volckart
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Nº 235 The Rise of a Financial Revolution in Republican China in 1900-1937: an Institutional Narrative
Debin Ma
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Nº 234 To Get the Prices Right for Food: A “Gerschenkron State” versus the Market in Reforming China, 1979–2006
Jane Du, Kent Deng
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Nº 233 The Heights of French-Canadian, Irish, Scottish and English Populations in Quebec, 1813 to 1847
Alex Arsenault Morin, Vincent Geloso, Vadim Kufenko
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Nº 232 How bad were British prison hulks in the Napoleonic wars? Evidence from captured Danish and Norwegian seamen
Tim Leunig, Jelle van Lottum, Bo Poulsen
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Nº 231 Real contracts and mistaken wages: The organisation of work and pay in London building trades, 1650 -1800
Judy Stephenson
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Nº 230 Transfer of Economic Power in Corporate Calcutta 1950-1970
Tirthankar Roy
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Nº 229 China’s GDP Per Capita from the Han Dynasty to Communist Times
Kent Deng, Patrick O'Brien