Questions tagged [economic-history]
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How could the Roman sestertii/sesterces be converted into modern terms (say 2017 US$)?
Of course, the value of the sesterti must itself have fluctuated over the centuries it was in use. And so if I must narrow it down, I am particularly interested in its value during
the time of ...
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Was there a time when economists “generally described” the 1920s “as being years of increasing protectionism”?
In Paul Bairoch's Economics & World History - Myths and Paradoxes (1993), the very first myth he tackles is this:
the 1920s are generally described as being years of increasing protectionism.
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Greek mathematics' application in the early economic theories
I am writing about the development of mathematics in the Ancient Greece as an assigment and I have to include its relation with economics. However, I lack of sources for this topic and I only found ...
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List of important business and economic news events between 1850 and 1930?
I'm collecting data on important business and economic news dates in the late 19th to early 20th century. The only list I found is this: https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/news-wires-white-papers-...
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How did the purported 2008 decoupling of emerging markets pan out?
One opinion voiced (in The Economist) around the 2008 recession was that:
Decoupling does not mean that an American recession will have no impact on developing countries. That would be daft. The ...
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Historically has the “decoupling” of world trade from GDP not lead to (or deepened) a recession?
The ECB speaks (somewhat euphemistically, in my opinion) of a "decoupling" of world trade from "activity" (i.e. GDP) in Q1 2019:
Historically, has it been the case that such a "decoupling" can last, ...
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How long did it take before the Hawley–Smoot Tariffs reached their peak effect on US growth?
I understand that this may still be a contentious issue, but are there some estimates how long it took before the Hawley–Smoot Tariffs impacted US growth significantly and/or how long it took for them ...
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What were the limits of trade and exchange in the Soviet Union? What about other communist countries?
I'm particularly wondering about what implications the abolition of private property had for families. Since private property was to be abolished, I assume houses were not legally allowed to be traded ...
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What are some great economic reforms from the Middle Ages / the Ancient History?
Is there any great economic structural reforms, which date back to the Middle Ages or to the Ancient times?
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Japanese savings glut vs capital adequacy issues in 1990s
If Japan had a huge savings glut in the 1990s, even during the financial downturn years, why were traditional banks and lenders struggling to meet the new capital adequacy requirements, under the 'Big ...
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Research and development data before 1970 for United States
I'm looking for expenditure of research and development data per sector or averaged across all sectors from the United States prior to 1970 either in absolute values or in percentage of GDP.
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What is “industrial capitalism”?
What's the difference between "industrial capitalism" and "agrarian capitalism" and "mercantilism" and the "industrial revolution" and the 20th century ideas of "Keynesianism"?
Is agrarian capitalism-...
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Stock market's obsession with growth of all companies?
I understand the stock market is a useful place to gain capital which allows further growth of a company. But it seems to me that even companies that have been on the stock market a while, appear to ...
