Commercial crisis and change in England, 1600 - 1642: a study in the instability of a mercantile economy
In: Cambridge studies in economic history
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In: Cambridge studies in economic history
In: Canadian journal of economics and political science: the journal of the Canadian Political Science Association = Revue canadienne d'économique et de science politique, Band 31, Heft 4, S. 613-614
In: The journal of economic history, Band 25, Heft 3, S. 424-425
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 241-243
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 94-95
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: Business history, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 65-66
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: Canadian journal of economics and political science: the journal of the Canadian Political Science Association = Revue canadienne d'économique et de science politique, Band 27, Heft 4, S. 460-478
Discussing the economic backwardness of Ireland in the late seventeenth century, Sir William Petty delivered himself of an apt, if indelicately worded, opinion. "Their Lazing," he wrote of the Irish, "seems to me to proceed rather from want of Imployment and Encouragement to Work, than from the natural abundance of Flegm in their Bowels and Blood." He continued this somewhat unorthodox analysis by listing the factors which destroyed or frustrated the incentives to increase production in Ireland; and, in the process, he succeeded in anticipating more than one modern idea on the subject. He even dealt with visible and disguised unemployment, and recommended, along lines fashionable today, that the surplus labour be employed in the creation of capital: improving rivers and constructing roads, bridges and buildings–"works," as he succinctly put it, "of much labour and little art."Although this article concerns neither Petty nor Ireland directly, the former's observations on the latter provide a useful introduction to its principal topic–the historical nature of economic underdevelopment. If we study the earlier history of today's highly developed economies, what sort of economic and social landscape do we find, and how does it compare with the structure of preindustrial economies in the mid twentieth century?
In: Canadian journal of economics and political science: the journal of the Canadian Political Science Association = Revue canadienne d'économique et de science politique, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 419-420
In: The journal of economic history, Band 21, Heft 2, S. 264-266
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 21, Heft 1, S. 132-133
ISSN: 1471-6372
In: The journal of economic history, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 548-556
ISSN: 1471-6372
Professor Goodrich had indicated that my function is to discuss the relevance of the concept of economic growth to the tasks of the economic historian. But I hope I may be forgiven if I touch incidentally on other sensitive and overworked areas—notably the relationship between theory and quantity on the one hand and history on the other. If the study of economic growth still meant what it did in Adam Smith's day there might be no need to be so cavalier—there might even be no need to hold this session. But a good number of intellectual bridges have fallen into the water since 1776 and it is surely necessary to examine this new construction with an eye not only to its permanence but to its utility.
In: The economic history review, Band 47, Heft 2, S. 439
ISSN: 1468-0289
In: Canadian journal of economics and political science: the journal of the Canadian Political Science Association = Revue canadienne d'économique et de science politique, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 114