1.
Collective Hallucinations and Inefficient Markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s
Number of pages: 322
Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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1,174
2.
This Time is Different: An Example of a Giant, Wildly Speculative, and Successful Investment Mania
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 60, 2010
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 23 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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1,041
3.
What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?
CESifo Working Paper Series, No. 3438
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 19 May 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Politics and All Souls College, Oxford
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739
4.
Law, Finance and the First Corporations
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RULE OF LAW, James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, L. Cabatingan, eds., Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 21 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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712
5.
Charles Mackay's Own Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Railway Mania
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 14 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads
662
6.
The Collapse of the Railway Mania, the Development of Capital Markets, and Robert Lucas Nash, a Forgotten Pioneer of Accounting and Financial Analysis
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 16 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads
652
7.
Statistics in Ancient History
MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 13-06
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 14 Feb 2013
Last Revised: 19 Feb 2013
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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559
8.
Self-Enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa
97-037
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 28 Jan 1998
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics
Downloads
536
9.
Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Mannheim and Alfred-Weber Institut
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402
10.
A Mark of Distinction: Branding and Trade Mark Law in the UK from the 1860s
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2009
Working Paper Series
Independent
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373
11.
Printing and Protestants: Reforming the Economics of the Reformation
Number of pages: 78
Posted: 18 Jan 2011
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
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354
12.
The Cost of Transportation in Pre-Industrial Europe
Dartmouth College, Dept. of Econ, Working Paper No. 01-02
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 06 Feb 2001
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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340
13.
The Forgotten Discovery of Gravity Models and the Inefficiency of Early Railway Networks
OEconomial, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015, pp. 157-192.
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 02 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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260
14.
Trade and information shocks, and market development: Evidence from early modern Europe
Number of pages: 101
Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 27 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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233
15.
Does European Development Have Roman Roots? Evidence from the German Limes
Number of pages: 126
Posted: 29 Jul 2015
Last Revised: 06 Aug 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Hohenheim - Department of Economics
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231
16.
Trading Costs and the Pattern of Trade in Pre-Industrial Europe
Dartmouth Economics Working Paper No. 00-06
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 11 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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223
17.
The Medieval Expansion of Long-Distance Trade: Adam Smith on the Town's Escape from the Violent and Low-Growth Feudal Equilibrium
Stanford Law and Economics Olin Working Paper No. 492
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 05 Jun 2016
Last Revised: 21 Jun 2016
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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221
18.
Anaerobic Digestion as a Renewable Energy Source and Waste Management Technology: What Must Be Done for this Technology to Realize Success in the United States?
University of Massachusetts Law Review, Vol. 9, 2014
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 07 Apr 2014
Last Revised: 12 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
The Klinkner Law Firm, LLC
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209
19.
Emergence of Corporate Contract Set, Governance and Accountability: Standing Orders of the East India Company, 1600-1621
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 15 Jul 2008
Last Revised: 17 Jan 2017
Working Paper Series
Kozminski University
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209
20.
Trading Costs, the Expansion of Trade and Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe
Dartmouth, Dept. Of Economics, Working Paper 00-05
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 11 Jan 2001
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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208
21.
Toward Understanding 17th Century English Culture: A Structural Topic Model of Francis Bacon's Ideas
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 03 Apr 2017
Last Revised: 01 Aug 2018
Working Paper Series
Washington and Lee University - Department of Economics and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Toward Understanding 17th Century English Culture: A Structural Topic Model of Francis Bacon's Ideas
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 03 Apr 2017
Last Revised: 01 Aug 2018
Downloads
202
A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6443
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 29 May 2017
Downloads
70
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202
22.
Patents and Industrialisation: An Historical Overview of the British Case, 1624-1907
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 11 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM) and University of Bristol - Department of Historical Studies
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193
23.
Bagehot's Giant Bubble Failure
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 06 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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163
24.
Law and Technology
International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication & Society, 2014
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 27 Mar 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Sussex Law School
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160
25.
Railroads and Growth in Prussia
Number of pages: 72
Posted: 22 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 22 Sep 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Cologne - Center for Macroeconomic Research (CMR)
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146
26.
Comparative Advantages in Italy: A Long-Run Perspective
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 9
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 22 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
European University Institute and Humboldt University Berlin - Department of Economics
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145
27.
Longevity in Services: The Case of the Dutch Warehousing Companies 1600-2000
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 28 Sep 2004
Working Paper Series
Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Amsterdam Business School and Independent
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138
28.
The Early British Railway System, the Casson Counterfactual, and the Effectiveness of Central Planning
Essays in Economic & Business History, vol. 34, 2016, pp. 60-94.
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 17 Jul 2014
Last Revised: 01 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
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128
29.
From Wood to Coal May Well Be from Malthus to Solow
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 11 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) - Monetary and Economic Department and International Monetary Fund (IMF) - European Department
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126
30.
Italy and the First Age of Globalization, 1861-1940
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 16
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 25 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Princeton University - Department of History and University of Dublin, Trinity College
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122
31.
Characterizing a Legal-Intellectual Culture: Bacon, Coke, and Seventeenth-Century England
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 30 Jan 2019
Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
Washington and Lee University - Department of Economics and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
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115
32.
The Transaction Costs of Semi-Public Institutions: Railway History as a Challenge for Coase
Number of pages: 377
Posted: 02 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
European University Institute - Florence School of Regulation
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105
33.
Lessons of the Spanish Empire, or the Curse of Resource Abundance
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 27 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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104
34.
The Anglo-American Misconception of Stockholders As ‘Owners’ and ‘Members’: Its Origins and Consequences
Journal of Institutional Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 23 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, The University of Virginia
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104
35.
How the Slave Trade Fostered Last Resort Lending
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 25 Jul 2018
Working Paper Series
University of the West of England (UWE)
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103
36.
Does Medieval Trade Still Matter? Historical Trade Centers, Agglomeration and Contemporary Economic Development
Number of pages: 96
Posted: 20 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 19 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Hohenheim - Department of Economics
Downloads
96
37.
Bulk Commodities and the Liverpool and London Markets of the Mid-19th Century
No. 2003-9a
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 13 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
North Carolina State University - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics
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80
38.
Technical Change, Non-Tariff Trade Barriers and the Development of the Italian Locomotives Industry, 1850-1913
CEIS Working Paper No. 305
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 11 Feb 2014
Last Revised: 17 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Pisa - Laboratory of Economics and Management (LEM)
Downloads
74
39.
A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6443
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 29 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Washington and Lee University - Department of Economics and University of Maryland - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Toward Understanding 17th Century English Culture: A Structural Topic Model of Francis Bacon's Ideas
Number of pages: 92
Posted: 03 Apr 2017
Last Revised: 01 Aug 2018
Downloads
202
A Structural Topic Model of the Features and the Cultural Origins of the Baconian Program
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6443
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 29 May 2017
Downloads
70
Downloads
70
40.
Accessing Capital Markets: Aristocrats and New Share Issues in the Cycle and Pneumatic Tyre Industries, 1892-1898
Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 16-10
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 25 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds, Independent and University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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68
41.
Bulk Commodities and the Liverpool and London Markets of the Mid-19th Century
No. 2003-9a
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 04 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
North Carolina State University - Department of Economics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Economics
Downloads
66
42.
Integration in the English Wheat Market 1770-1820
NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 12/2013
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 15 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
NHH - Norwegian School of Economics and University of Bristol - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Integration in the English Wheat Market 1770-1820
NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 12/2013
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 15 Jun 2013
Downloads
66
Integration in the English Wheat Market 1770-1820
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9504
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 21 Jun 2013
Downloads
66
43.
On the Accuracy of Latin American Trade Statistics: A Nonparametric Test for 1925
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 15 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
Public University of Navarre - Department of Economics and Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Department of Economics and Business (DEB)
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66
44.
Viking's 'Semantic Gaps': Law and the Political Economy of Convergence in the EU
In Bill Davies and Fernanda Nicola, eds., EU Law Stories: Critical and Contextual Histories of European Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press 2017)
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 11 May 2015
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Connecticut School of Law
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66
45.
Ease vs. Noise: On the Conflicting Effects of Transportation Infrastructure
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6058
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 13 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, Darmstadt University of Technology - Department of Law and Economics and Touro College
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65
46.
Monopoly and Regulation in Industrializing England: Evidence from the Infrastructure Sector
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 15 Jul 2011
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2011
Working Paper Series
University of California, Irvine - Department of Economics
Downloads
59
47.
Enterprise Forms and Accounting Conventions in Two 18th-Century Newfoundland Mercantile Concerns
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 06 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
Mount Royal University - Bissett School of Business
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58
48.
The Secondary Railway Huelva Ayamonte: Its Origin and Construction
IV Congreso de Historia Ferroviaria, pp. 21-23, September 2006
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 01 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Sussex
Downloads
58
49.
Transport Infrastructure - Adding Value
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 25 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
Case Associates
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58
50.
Geographical Effects on the Accuracy of Textile Trade Data: An International Approach for 1913
UPF Economics and Business Working Paper No. 821
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 18 Nov 2005
Working Paper Series
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Downloads
57
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