Este es un nuevo relato definitivo de la evolución económica de Gran Bretaña desde un
remanso de Europa en 1270 hasta el centro de la economía global en 1870. Un equipo de …

Societies before the Industrial Revolution were dependent on the annual cycle of plant
photosynthesis for both heat and mechanical energy. The quantity of energy available each …

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India
began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and …

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the
overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now …

Quantitative and qualitative analysis of a large number of autobiographies by working men
who lived through the industrial revolution has demonstrated that there was an upsurge in …

This paper investigates the hypothesis that the causal effect of life expectancy on income per
capita growth is non-monotonic. This hypothesis follows from the recent literature on unified …

Two distinctive regimes are distinguished in Spain over half a millennium. The first one
(1270s–1590s) corresponds to a high land–labour ratio frontier economy, which is pastoral …

Contrary to the claims of Pomeranz, Parthasarathi, and other 'world historians', the
prosperous parts of Asia between 1500 and 1800 look similar to the stagnating southern …

The interest generated by the anthropometric research program since the pioneering
publications of the late 1970s has been predicated to a considerable degree on the …

The purpose of the article is to present the statistical reconstruction of a series of per capita
output in central–northern Italy between 1300 and 1913. The various phases of both the …