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Cambridge University Press Rebuilding Germany
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Cambridge University Press The Nazi Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank
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Cambridge University Press Markets in Historical Contexts
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Cambridge University Press The Peasants of Ottobeuren 1487 1726
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Cambridge University Press Commercial Crisis and Change in England 16001642
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Cambridge University Press Indias Exports and Pols in 1960s Cambridge South Asian Studies Series Number 19
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Cambridge University Press Private Investment in India 10 Cambridge South Asian Studies Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Agrarian Bengal Economy Social Structure and Politics 19191947 Cambridge South Asian Studies Series Number 36
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Cambridge University Press Soviet Workers and Perestroika The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachevs Reforms 19851991 93 Cambridge Russian Soviet and PostSoviet Studies Series Number 93
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Cambridge University Press The Economic Advisory Council 1930 1939
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Cambridge University Press Private and Public Enterprise in Europe
Book SynopsisThis 2005 book is a comparative history of the economic organisation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Europe. It examines the role played by private and public enterprise in their construction and operation from the arrival of the railways in the 1830s to the eve of privatisation in the 1980s.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: 'This is a riveting, wide-ranging analysis of the development of these technologically driven industries which is absolutely vital reading for historians of this period. It is interdisciplinary, internationally comparative and also easy to read. In many ways it makes an excellent companion volume to Millward's much earlier economics text Public Expenditure Economics (1971) and could, along with other texts such as Oz Shy's The Economics of Network Industries, provide the basis for a chronologically long, internationally wide-ranging and economically stimulating course on the international development of network industries.' Economic History ReviewReview of the hardback: 'In this remarkable book Robert Millward has produced a comprehensive economic history of the regulation of energy, telecommunications and transport in Western Europe between 1830 and 1990. By focusing on the 'infrastructure industries', Millward makes a major contribution to cross-European economic history, and his book will serve as a benchmark against which future comparative research should be measured. Millward demonstrates that the origins of government ownership and regulation date back well into the nineteenth century. … will doubtless act as a valuable data source for researchers.' Urban HistoryReview of the hardback: ' This book is a welcome work of synthesis. A volume in the Cambridge Studies in Economic History, it seeks to chart the development of the major elements in Europe's utilities sector - energy, telecommunications and transport - over the period from the arrival of the railways in the 1830's to c. 1990. Of course, it is a daunting task to attempt this on the pan-European stage, and it is to Bob Millward's credit, therefore, that he has produced an authoritative and, in many ways, innovative effort. ... an important book which, drawing on a wide range of scholarship with a clarity of presentation, will be required reading for all interested in the development of Europe's utilities since the onset of industrialization.' Business HistoryTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Ideology, technology and economic policy; Part II. The Construction of the New European Infrastructure c. 1830–1914: 2. Infrastructure development and rights of way in the early nineteenth century; 3. Local supply networks, private concessions and municipalisation; 4. Railways and telegraph: economic growth and national unification; 5. Electricity supply, tramways and new regulatory regimes c. 1870–1914; Part III. Nations and Networks 1914–45: 6. Infrastructure development from the nineteenth to the twentieth century: an overall perspective; 7. The development of telecommunications; 8. Network integration in electricity supply: successes and failures; 9. Railway finances and road-rail competition; Part IV. State Enterprise 1945–90: 10. The new state, economic organisation and planning; 11. Coal, oil and security; 12. Airline regulation and the transport revolution; 13. Telecommunications: from calm to storm; 14. Economic policy, financial accountability and productivity growth; Part V. Conclusions: 15. The road to privatisation and de-regulation?
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Cambridge University Press Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State
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Cambridge University Press Protectionism and Economic Revival
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Cambridge University Press The Open Field System and Beyond
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Cambridge University Press A Domestic History of the Bank of England 1930 1960
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Cambridge University Press British Trade and the Opening of China 1800 42
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Cambridge University Press Manufacturing the Future
Book SynopsisA full-length history of the Western Electric Company, the manufacturing arm of the Bell System, who made new products such as telegraphs, telephones, an early computing machine, radar, and transistors. This book describes the coming of age of industrial psychology and the advent of civil rights in corporate America.Trade Review"This overview of the operation and evolution of a leading firm over a vital era of American business history is recommended for undergraduate and graduate library collections." Choice"...a compact and highly readable account of a hitherto largely neglected company." Albert Churella, Business History"Manufacturing the Future provides a valuable overview of Western Electric's history, an excellent teaching tool for undergraduates studying the American economy." John Abrahamson, EH.NET"The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes...into such a brief account are highly praisworthy." Enterprise & Society"Manufacturing the Future is a thorough and well-structured book that clearly and succinctly- in 218 text pages- covers the most seminal points in Western Electric's history. The Book's emphasis on the relationship between the firm and the Bell System is well placed and its arguments are convicing. The author's abilities to integrate so many disparate themes...are highly praiseworthy." Enterprise & SocietyTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Before the Bell: 1869–82; 2. In Bell's world, but not of it: 1882–1900; 3. Systems of managing and managing of systems: 1900–25; 4. Heard round the world: 1925–50; 5. Defense and social contracts: 1950–72; 6. A shock to the system: 1972–84; 7. Epilogue: 1984–95; Conclusion: 'no ordinary company'.
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Cambridge University Press War and Trade in Northern Seas
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Cambridge University Press Soviet Economists of the Twenties
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Cambridge University Press Dutch Capital and World Capitalism
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Cambridge University Press Coal and Tobacco
Book SynopsisIn Coal and Tobacco, Dr Beckett has attempted, by analysing the west Cumberland economy, and the Lowther's entrepreneurial role, to reveal the vital importance of the coal industry. Dr Beckett's major study is based on the Lowther papers, and reveals the crucial family involvement in these events.Table of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. The Lowthers: land owning-entrepreneurs; 2. Coal: Monopoly and competition; 3. Coal: the structure of trade and industry; 4. The expansion of trade; 5. The development of industry; 6. Communications; 7. Creating new towns: Urban growth; Conclusion; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press An Economic History of Modern Britain Free Trade and Steel 18501886 2
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Cambridge University Press An Economic History of Modern Britain
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Cambridge University Press An Economic History of Modern Britain
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Cambridge University Press The Market the State and the ExportImport Bank of the United States 1934 2000
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Cambridge University Press From Buildings and Loans to BailOuts A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry 18311995
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Cambridge University Press The Settler Economies Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 19001963 35 African Studies Series Number 35
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Cambridge University Press City Bankers 18901914
Book SynopsisCity Bankers, 1890â1914 is a major contribution to a controversial area of economic history and to the debate about the nature of British society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. Translated here into English for the first time, it provides a detailed analysis of the banking community of London between 1890 and 1914 when the City of London was the undisputed financial centre of the world. Attention is paid to the social origins, education, careers , business interests and fortunes of its members, to the networks of relationships of its most important dynasties, as well as to the political influence of the world of banking. The analysis is based on a sample of 460 bankers at the heart of international finance and the author has used a wide range of banking archives and private papers. Business historians and economists will welcome this comprehensive study of a most important group of capitalists at the junction of the business world and aristocratic society in the Edwardian ageTrade Review"Among late-Victorian institutions, few can match the City of London either in its claim to historical importance or its lack of solid documentation. Youssef Cassis's newly translated City Bankers provides English-speaking historians with an important first step towards understanding what made the City tick....This is a welcome translation and an important book." Victorian StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction to the English Edition; Introduction; 1. Banks and bankers; 2. Paths to banking; 3. The banking profession; 4. Financial interests and commitments; 5. Banks' profits, bankers' fortunes; 6. Marriages and dynasties; 7. The aristocratic way of life; 8. Finance and politics; Conclusion; Sources and bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press An Economic History of the Silk Industry 18301930 5 Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Business Politics and International Relations Steel Cotton and International Cartels in British Politics 19241939
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Cambridge University Press The Definition of a Peripheral Economy Turkey 19231929 Studies in Modern Capitalism
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Cambridge University Press Fixed Ideas of Money Small States and Exchange Rate Regimes in TwentiethCentury Europe Studies in Macroeconomic History
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Cambridge University Press The History of the British Petroleum Company History of British Petroleum Volume 2 The AngloIranian Years 19281954
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Cambridge University Press The Grain Market in the Roman Empire A Social Political and Economic Study
Book SynopsisThis book explores the economic, social and political forces that shaped the grain market in the Roman Empire. Examining studies on food supply and the grain market in pre-industrial Europe, it addresses questions of productivity, division of labour, market relations and market integration. The social and political aspects of the Roman grain market are also considered. Dr Erdkamp illustrates how entitlement to food in Roman society was dependent on relations with the emperor, his representatives and the landowning aristocracy, and local rulers controlling the towns and hinterlands. He assesses the response of the Roman authorities to weaknesses in the grain market and looks at the implications of the failure of local harvests. By examining the subject from a contemporary perspective, this book will appeal not only to historians of ancient economies, but to all concerned with the economy of grain markets, a subject which still resonates today.Trade Review"Erdkamp's work is a successful discussion of an important and fundamental area of Roman history. The Grain Market in the Roman Empire is a valuable addition to the scholarly literature on the supply and distribution of food within the center of the Empire and the forces of the ancient market. Erdkamp's attention to the complexities of the economic, political, and social forces and his use of appropriate ethnographic evidence makes his case a persuasive one. Erdkamp's familiarty with the literary and material evidence and his fluency with the theoretical forces that drive the ancient market will ensure that his ideas remain an important element in the discussion of the Roman economy for years to come." Joseph Lemak, Elmira College, Bryn Mawr Classical Review"This is an original and important analysis of the grain supply of the Roman empire, methodologically ambitious, thoughtful, thoroughly researched. Erdkamp's work makes intelligent use of comparative evidence from medieval and modern Europe to model the Roman grain market, from production, through regional and international trade, to its sale to the consumer. It ought to be widely read by scholars and students of the Roman grain trade, agriculture, nutrition, and social welfare." -- PhoenixTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Production and productivity in Roman agriculture; 2. The world of the smallholder; 3. Farmers and their market relations; 4. Market integration: connecting supply and demand; 5. Rome and the corn provinces; 6. Urban food supply and grain market intervention; Conclusions; References; Indexes.
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Cambridge University Press Mammon and the Pursuit of Empire
Book SynopsisHistorians have so far made few attempts to assess directly the costs and benefits of Britain's investment in empire. This book presents answers to some of the key questions about the economics of imperialism.Table of ContentsPreface; 1. The British Empire and the economics of imperialism: an introductory statement; 2. The export of British finance: 1865–1914; 3. British business and the profits from Empire; 4. Government expenditure in support of business; 5. The costs of defending an empire: the British and colonial taxpayer; 6. British subsidies to the Empire: the nondefence component; 7. The shareholders in imperial enterprises; 8. The sources of government revenues; 9. Empire, the special interests, and the House of Commons; 10. Imperium economicus - in retrospect; Official documents; Private papers; Company records; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press British Capitalism at the Crossroads 1919 1932
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Cambridge University Press Europe since 1980
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Cambridge University Press Money in Ptolemaic Egypt From the Macedonian Conquest to the End of the Third Century BC
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Cambridge University Press The Decline of Inland Bills of Exchange in the London Money Market 1855 1913
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Cambridge University Press Energy and the English Industrial Revolution
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Cambridge University Press Escape from the Market Negotiating Work in Lancashire
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Cambridge University Press Building HighTech Clusters
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Cambridge University Press International Financial History in the Twentieth Century
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Cambridge University Press Capitals of Capital The Rise and Fall of International Financial Centres 17802009
Book SynopsisThis is the first history of international financial centres and of the major stake that they now represent in the global economy. Youssef Cassis, one of the world's leading financial historians, provides a fascinating comparative history of the most important centres that constitute the capitals of capital - New York, London, Frankfurt, Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore. The book explores the dynamics of the rise and decline of these great centres from the beginning of the industrial age up to the present, setting them throughout in their economic, political, social, and cultural context and drawing on concepts from financial economics in its analysis of events. This paperback edition has been fully updated to take account of the challenges posed by the financial collapse of 2007â8 and offers the longer term framework necessary to understand the ongoing economic crisis facing capitals of capital today.Trade Review'… useful reading for anyone interested in the antecedents of today's vibrant international financial markets.' Foreign Affairs'… a magisterial survey … This book will become the starting point from which all scholars will in future have to base their research.' Financial History Review'It is difficult to do justice to the scope of the book in this brief review … in presenting a complex story in a readable and accessible narrative, Cassis performs a valuable service to the business historian.' Enterprise and Society'… an admirable, indeed indispensable account of how the capitals of capital evolved over more than two centuries - a contest that continues today in perhaps more granular and nuanced form … As modern academic offerings encompassing a solid dose of financial history are designed, Capitals of Capital will surely command a prominent place on reading lists.' Journal of International Economics'This is a truly scholarly work of synthesis … the breadth, scope and detail of the study must recommend it to scholars and students seeking an overview of the development of international financial and banking markets over the past two hundred years.' Catherine R. Schenk, EH.NET'Professor Cassis, with the help of his translator, has written a first class book; one that can, thanks in no small part to the comprehensive glossary, be read by the non-specialist.' Open History'In Capitals of Capital Youssef Cassis vividly explains and compares the roles of major international financial centres in creating and sustaining our current global economy. The great centres - London, New York, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin and Frankfurt, Tokyo, and others - rise, decline, and rejuvenate. They compete and cooperate to pool the world's financial resources and distribute them to finance trade and investment within and among nations. Institutions and personalities of course did the work, and Cassis gives the great banks and bankers, markets, and stock exchanges due attention. The book brilliantly demonstrates that much of modern history can be brought into focus through the lens of international financial center development.' Richard Sylla, Stern School of Business'A dizzying and masterful narrative of the ever-changing fate of financial centres. Combining big trends and small but exciting details, Youssef Cassis connects the dots from the decline of Amsterdam in the late 18th century to globalization in the early 21st century. How did Hong Kong and Singapore emerge as world-class financial centres? Why did Berlin dislodge Frankfurt as Germany's top financial spot in the 1870s? All of that, and much, much more is explained in detail in this book that economists, historians and just about everyone interested in international finance will enjoy reading.' Charles Wyplosz, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva'Youssef Cassis has presented a masterful historical profile of international financial centers. The book is a triumph.' Mira Wilkins, Florida International University'Capitals of Capital is the landmark achievement of a renowned comparative historian. Although the main individual international financial centres have had their histories written, there has long been a need for an authoritative, comprehensive overview of the fluctuating and often entwined fortunes of the rival centres. Youssef Cassis not only dispassionately tells that story over the last two and a quarter centuries, but also gives us much to ponder about the future as we move ever further into a post-industrial age.' David Kynaston, author of The City of London'Anyone interested in the historical background of the world's most important international financial centers will prize this book enormously.' Journal of Interdisciplinary HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The age of private bankers, 1780–1840; 2. The concentration of capital, 1840–75; 3. A globalised world, 1875–1914; 4. Wars and depression, 1914–45; 5. Growth and regulation, 1945–80; 6. Globalisation, innovation and crisis, 1980–2009; Conclusion; Glossary.
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Cambridge University Press The Great Transition Climate Disease And Society
Book SynopsisIn the fourteenth century the Old World witnessed a series of profound and abrupt changes in the trajectory of long-established historical trends. Transcontinental networks of exchange fractured and an era of economic contraction and demographic decline dawned from which Latin Christendom would not begin to emerge until its voyages of discovery at the end of the fifteenth century. In a major new study of this 'Great Transition', Bruce Campbell assesses the contributions of commercial recession, war, climate change, and eruption of the Black Death to a far-reaching reversal of fortunes from which no part of Eurasia was spared. The book synthesises a wealth of new historical, palaeo-ecological and biological evidence, including estimates of national income, reconstructions of past climates, and genetic analysis of DNA extracted from the teeth of plague victims, to provide a fresh account of the creation, collapse and realignment of Western Europe's late medieval commercial economy.Trade Review'Promises to be the new bible in environmental history.' Medieval Histories (www.medievalhistories.com)'Bruce M. S. Campbell's latest book is grounded in prodigious reading from a wide range of disciplines, cutting across fields of agricultural, geographical, economic, social and church history, and into the latest findings in the genetics of Yersinia pestis and especially climate history.' Samuel J. Cohn, Jr, The English Historical ReviewTable of Contents1. Interactions between nature and society in the late medieval world; 2. Efflorescence: the enabling environment and the rise of Latin Christendom; 3. A precarious balance: mounting economic vulnerability in an era of increasing climatic instability and re-emergent pathogens; 4. Tipping point: war, climate change and plague shift the balance; 5. Recession: the inhibiting environment and Latin Christendom's late medieval demographic and economic contraction; Epilogue: theory, contingency, conjuncture and the Great Transition; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Finance Intermediaries and Economic Development
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Cambridge University Press West Indian Slavery and British Abolition 17831807
Book SynopsisThis book challenges conventional wisdom regarding the political and economic motivations behind the final decision to abolish the British slave trade in 1807. Recent historians believe that this first blow against slavery was the result of social changes inside Britain and pay little attention to the important developments that took place inside the West Indian slave economy. David Beck Ryden's research illustrates that a faltering sugar economy after 1799 tipped the scales in favor of the abolitionist argument and helped secure the passage of abolition. Ryden examines the economic arguments against slavery and the slave trade that were employed in the writings of Britain's most important abolitionists. Using a wide range of economic and business data, this study deconstructs the assertions made by both abolitionists and antiabolitionists regarding slave management, the imperial economy, and abolition.Trade Review'David Ryden's impressively researched book on West Indian slavery and abolition breathes new life into a major historical controversy. Ryden's emphasis on political and economic contingency in the early nineteenth century adds fresh vigor to arguments connecting abolition to the decline of the plantation system. Even the immensely powerful West Indian proslavery interest, whose inner workings Ryden deciphers brilliantly, were helpless in the face of short-term economic trauma. Ryden's elegant study is a major achievement, transforming our understanding of how the slave trade came to be abolished in 1807.' Trevor Burnard, University of Warwick'By examining Parliamentary Papers and Debates, the minutes of the meeting of The Society of West India Planters and Merchants, planter correspondence, and related primary sources for the years before the ending of the British slave trade, David Beck Ryden has provided an excellent contribution to the ongoing discussions centered on the writings of Eric Williams about the relative importance of economic as opposed to moral factors in the passage of the 1807 legislation ending the British slave trade. West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783–1807 is a well-researched and clearly argued study that will repay reading by all interested in this ongoing debate.' Stanley Engerman, University of Rochester'Well researched and cogently presented, Ryden's book argues that the economic state of the sugar-slave complex in the Caribbean directly affected the British decision to abolish their transatlantic slave trade. This counter-blast to current historiography on this topic will be widely discussed by British imperial historians.' Kenneth Morgan, Brunel University'One of the many strengths of this book is its analysis of the planter lobby in Britain and its gradual loss of political influence. Another strength is the emphasis it puts on the growth of the West Indian economy at the end of the eighteenth century, and the ability of the planter class to experiment and innovate.' The Times Literary Supplement'… this book is a testament to Ryden's expertise in economic analysis and to his thorough archival research in the United Kingdom, the United States and Jamaica.' New West Indian GuideTable of Contents1. Producing a peculiar commodity; 2. The Atlantic economy's political economic power; 3. Jamaican planters and the London West India interest; 4. The production and distribution of Jamaican muscovado; 5. Duties, drawbacks, and the uncommitted mercantilists; 6. The management of slaves in Jamaica; 7. Abolition and colonial reform; 8. Antiabolition and colonial rights: the defense of the slave trade; 9. A business paradox: rising productivity and collapsing profitability; 10. Rapid decline and abolition.
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Cambridge University Press Deflation Current and Historical Perspectives Studies in Macroeconomic History
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