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In: Human rights law review, Volume 2, Issue 1, p. 167-177
ISSN: 1744-1021
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In: Human rights law review, Volume 2, Issue 1, p. 167-177
ISSN: 1744-1021
"With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Kiffin Yates Rockwell of Asheville, North Carolina, volunteered to fight for France. Initially serving with the French Foreign Legion, he soon became a founding member of the Lafayette Escadrille. This book covers Rockwell's early life and military service with the Lafayette Escadrille"--
In: Synthese: an international journal for epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science, Volume 198, Issue 7, p. 5953-5976
ISSN: 1573-0964
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 86, Issue 2, p. 331-333
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: National municipal review, Volume 39, Issue 3, p. 121-129
In: National municipal review, Volume 39, p. 121-124
ISSN: 0190-3799
In: Human rights law review, Volume 10, Issue 4, p. 597-599
ISSN: 1744-1021
In: Human rights law review, Volume 10, Issue 4, p. 601-638
ISSN: 1744-1021
In: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bf13adfa-9758-416f-b1d5-6506e64de848
Part of a long-run project to put together a systematic database of prices and wages for the American contingents, this paper takes a first look at standards of living in a series of North American and Latin American cities. From secondary sources we collected price data that - with diverse degrees of quality - covers various years between colonization and independence and, following the methodology now familiar in the literature, we built estimations of price indexes for Boston, Philadelphia, and the Chesapeake Bay region in North America and Bogota, Mexico, and Postosi in Latin America exploring alternative assumptions on the characteristics of the reference basket. We use these indexes to deflate the (relatively more scarce) figures on wages, and compare the results with each other, and with the now widely known series for various European and Asian cities. We find that real wages were higher in North America than in Latin America from the very early colonial period: four times the World Bank Poverty Line (WBPL) in North America while only two times the WBPL in Latin America. These wages place the North American colonies among the most advanced countries in the world alongside Northwestern European countries and the Latin American colonies among the least developed countries at a similar level to Southern European and Asian countries. These wage differences existed from the early colonial period because wages in the American colonies were determined by wages in the respective metropoles and by the Malthusian population dynamics of indigenous peoples. Settlers would not migrate unless they could maintain their standard of living, so wages in the colonies were set in the metrople. Political institutions, forced labour regimes, economic geography, disease environments and culture shaped the size of the economy of each colony but did not affect income levels.
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In: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e70bcf3a-ee8f-4e3d-931c-fa7c8eda34fa
Part of a long-run project to put together a systematic database of prices and wages for the American contingents, this paper takes a first look at standards of living in a series of North American and Latin American cities. From secondary sources we collected price data that - with diverse degrees of quality - covers various years between colonization and independence and, following the methodology now familiar in the literature, we built estimations of price indexes for Boston, Philadelphia, and the Chesapeake Bay region in North America and Bogota, Mexico, and Postosi in Latin America exploring alternative assumptions on the characteristics of the reference basket. We use these indexes to deflate the (relatively more scarce) figures on wages, and compare the results with each other, and with the now widely known series for various European and Asian cities. We find that real wages were higher in North America than in Latin America from the very early colonial period: four times the World Bank Poverty Line (WBPL) in North America while only two times the WBPL in Latin America. These wages place the North American colonies among the most advanced countries in the world alongside Northwestern European countries and the Latin American colonies among the least developed countries at a similar level to Southern European and Asian countries. These wage differences existed from the early colonial period because wages in the American colonies were determined by wages in the respective metropoles and by the Malthusian population dynamics of indigenous peoples. Settlers would not migrate unless they could maintain their standard of living, so wages in the colonies were set in the metrople. Political institutions, forced labour regimes, economic geography, disease environments and culture shaped the size of the economy of each colony but did not affect income levels.
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In: Journal of political economy, Volume 57, p. 30-45
ISSN: 0022-3808
In: Bulletin of Economic Research, Volume 3, Issue 2, p. 83-101
ISSN: 1467-8586
In: Social work: a journal of the National Association of Social Workers, Volume 47, Issue 4, p. 461-470
ISSN: 1545-6846