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[BOOK] Priceless markets: the political economy of credit in Paris, 1660-1870

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - 2000 - books.google.com
This pathbreaking book shows how credit markets functioned in Paris, through the agency of
notaries, during a critical period of French history. Its authors challenge the usual
assumption that organized financial markets--and hence the opportunity for economic ...
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The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights, Litigation, and French Agriculture, 1700–1860

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Economic History, 1990 - Cambridge Univ Press
The French Revolution should be assessed not simply through a debate about its economic,
social, or political causes, but through its economic consequences. 1 This dissertation
attempts to evaluate the Revolution by examining the political economy of drainage and ...
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The analytical narrative project

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RH Bates, A Greif, M Levi, JL Rosenthal… - The American Political …, 2000 - JSTOR
In Analytic Narratives, we attempt to address several issues. First, many of us are engaged
in in-depth case studies, but we also seek to contribute to, and to make use of, theory. How
might we best proceed? Second, the historian, the anthropologist, and the area specialist ...
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Wealth concentration in a developing economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994

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T Piketty, G Postel-Vinay… - CEPR Discussion Paper …, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use large samples of estate tax returns to construct new series on wealth
concentration in Paris and France from 1807 to 1994. Wealth concentration in Paris and in
France increased until World War I and then fell abruptly. The rise in inequality prior to ...
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Legal regime and contractual flexibility: A comparison of business's organizational choices in France and the United States during the era of industrialization

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NR Lamoreaux… - American law and economics …, 2005 - Am Law Econ Assoc
Abstract We compare the law governing business organizational forms in France and the
United States during the nineteenth century and find that, contrary to the conventional
wisdom, the contracting environment in the US was neither freer nor more flexible than in ...
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[CITATION] The political economy of warfare and taxation in early modern Europe: historical lessons for economic development

P Hoffman… - The Frontiers of the New …, 1997 - Academic Press San Diego
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The political economy of absolutism reconsidered

JL Rosenthal - Analytic Narratives, 1998 - books.google.com
Between the mid-seventeenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans
transformed their political and economic institutions to create modem states. Among the
many aspects of this transformation, I focus in this chapter on four that played a key role in ...
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Historical financing of small-and medium-size enterprises

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R Cull, LE Davis, NR Lamoreaux… - Journal of Banking & …, 2006 - Elsevier
We focus on the economies of the North Atlantic Core during the 19th and early 20th
centuries and find that an impressive variety of local financial institutions emerged to supply
the needs of SMEs wherever there was sufficient demand for their services. Although ...
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Putting the Corporation in its Place

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T Guinnane, R Harris, NR Lamoreaux… - Enterprise and …, 2007 - Business Hist Conf
Abstract This article challenges the idea that the corporation is a globally superior form of
business organization and that the Anglo-American common-law is more conducive to
economic development than the code-based legal systems characteristic of continental ...
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Private credit markets in Paris, 1690-1840

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PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - Journal of Economic History, 1992 - JSTOR
Relying on a large sample of private and public loan contracts taken from Parisian notarial
records, this article examines the private borrowers and lenders who participated in the
credit market between 1690 and 1840. It explains the important role notaries played in the ...
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Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States

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NR Lamoreaux… - 2004 - nber.org
In a recent series of articles, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer,
and Robert W. Vishny have argued that countries whose legal systems are based on civil
law (especially of French origin) have systematically weaker environments for business ...
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Information and economic history: How the Credit Market in Old Regime Paris Forces us to rethink the Transition to Capitalism

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PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - The American Historical …, 1999 - JSTOR
BENEATH THE VAST HISTORY OF BUSINESS PRACTICES-and underneath the historical
scholarship on financial transactions in particular-there lurks a beguiling story, a story that
goes something like this: Before the Industrial Revolution-and in developing countries, ...
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[PDF] Corporate governance and the plight of minority shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression

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NR Lamoreaux… - 2006 - nber.org
The Crédit Mobilier manipulation was a spectacular scandal. Directors of the Union Pacific
Railroad had organized their own construction company and had awarded themselves
contracts to build the transcontinental line. Although historians have long debated whether ...
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[PDF] Organizational Choice and Economic Development: A Comparison of France and the United States during the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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NR Lamoreaux… - CEPR/CEMFI Workshop “Understanding …, 2001 - cepr.org
Organizational Choice and Economic Development: A Comparison of France and the United
States during the Mid-Nineteenth Century Naomi R. Lamoreaux Economics and History, UCLA,
and NBER and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Economics, UCLA, and INRA-LEA, Paris ...
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The development of irrigation in provence, 1700-1860: The french revolution and economic growth

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JL Rosenthal - Journal of Economic History, 1990 - Cambridge Univ Press
Quantitative and qualitative evidence suggest that the returns to irrigation in France were
similar during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Old Regime failed to develop
irrigation because of fragmented political authority over rights of eminent domain. Since ...
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Rural credit markets and aggregate shocks: The experience of Nuits St. Georges, 1756–1776

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Economic History, 1994 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract Using a complete enumeration of credit contracts for a rural area in Burgundy, this
article examines how credit markets functioned and what role they served. Credit markets
distributed funds to a large fraction of the population, and they were organized to mediate ...
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Credit markets and economic change in southeastern France 1630-1788

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R Jean-Laurent - Explorations in Economic History, 1993 - Elsevier
Abstract This paper analyzes a sample of loan contracts from a town in southeastern France
between 1630 and 1788. The data suggest that credit markets were both active and flexible.
Prior to 1750 a wide range of interest rates was charged to different borrowers for ...
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Politics and Public Finance in France: The Estates of Burgundy, 1660-1790

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M Potter… - The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 1997 - JSTOR
of Burgundy, I660-I790 During the American Revolu-tion, the French Crown increased its
debt by more than a billion livres by soliciting lenders directly and by relying on
intermediating institutions to coax savings from French people and foreigners alike. ...
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What do Notaries do? Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - Journal of Institutional and …, 1998 - JSTOR
Using evidence from 18th century Paris, we explore how financial intermediaries resolved
problems of asymmetric information in financial markets. The Parisian intermediaries were
notaries, and after examining their role in asset markets, we develop a more general ...
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[BOOK] Surviving large losses: financial crises, the middle class, and the development of capital markets

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - 2007 - books.google.com
Financial disasters often have long-range institutional consequences. When financial
institutions--banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms, stock exchanges--collapse, new
ones take their place, and these changes shape markets for decades or even generations. ...
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[DOC] Divided we fall: the political economy of warfare and taxation

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P Hoffman… - 1997 - hss.caltech.edu
To explain why representative institutions emerge–an issue that touches upon both
international relations and domestic political economy–we formulate a simple game
theoretic model of the transition to parliamentary government and use it to give reasons ...
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Redistribution and long-term private debt in Paris, 1660-1726

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PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - The Journal of …, 1995 - Cambridge Univ Press
Based on a large sample from Parisian notarial records, this article examines the long-term
private credit market in Paris in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries and
analyzes how it was affected by government-caused redistribution. It estimates the level of ...
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Historical Financing of Small-and Medium-Sized Enterprises

R Cull, LE Davis, NR Lamoreaux… - 2005 - nber.org
We focus on the economies of the North Atlantic Core during the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries and find that an impressive variety of local financial institutions emerged
to supply the needs of SMEs wherever there was sufficient demand for their services. ...
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Des marchés sans prix. Une économie politique du crédit à Paris, 1660-1870

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - Recherche, 2001 - lavoisier.fr
Aujourd'hui les institutions de crédit vont de soi: qu'en était-il sousl'Ancien Régime qui ne
possédait pas d'institutions financières modernes? Paris, entre 1660 et 1870, est un
laboratoire idéal pour répondre à la question: à la fois grand centre financier et lieu de ...
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[CITATION] Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice

NR Lamoreaux, JL Rosenthal… - 2004 - NBER
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[CITATION] New work in French economic history

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PT Hoffman… - French Historical Studies, 2000 - Duke Univ Press
We say no. It would be a mistake to ignore economic history, particularly for French
historians. Indeed, some of the best recent work in economic history concerns France, and
although much of this scholarship has been overlooked by historians, it bears upon issues ...
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[BOOK] Before and beyond divergence: The politics of economic change in China and Europe

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JL Rosenthal… - 2011 - books.google.com
China has reemerged as a powerhouse in the global economy, reviving a classic question
in economic history: why did sustained economic growth arise in Europe rather than in
China? Many favor cultural and environmental explanations of the nineteenth-century ...
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[CITATION] Analytic narratives

H Bates Robert, A Greif, M Levi… - 1998 - Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton …
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The development of intermediation in French credit markets: evidence from the estates of Burgundy

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M Potter… - The Journal of economic history, 2002 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract We document how intermediaries shaped markets or, conversely, how market
institutions constrained intermediaries. In Dijon, where the Estates of Burgundy's debt
amounted to nearly half of all bonds in that small market, there was limited need for ...
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Ownership and control in the entrepreneurial firm: An international history of private limited companies

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T Guinnane, R Harris, NR Lamoreaux… - Notes, 2007 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two
pervasive assumptions in the literature:(1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for
economic development than continental Europe's civil-law institutions; and (2) the ...
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[CITATION] Warfare and economic growth in China and Europe

JL Rosenthal… - 2007 - Mimeo, University of California, Los …
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[CITATION] The Fruits of Revolution: Property Rights

JL Rosenthal - Litigation, and French Agriculture, 1992
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[CITATION] Priceless Markets: the Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870

JL ROSENTHAL, P HOFFMAN… - 2000 - Chicago: The University Chicago …
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Analytic narratives

A Greif, M Levi, JL Rosenthal… - Princeton: Princeton, 1998 - 202.120.227.5
Abstract Students of comparative politics have long faced a vexing dilemma: how can social
scientists draw broad, applicable principles of political order from specific historical
examples? In Analytic Narratives, five senior scholars offer a new and ambitious ...
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Economie et politique: les marchés du crédit à Paris, 1750-1840

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P Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - Annales, 1994 - JSTOR
Using a new data set on public and private credit markets in Paris from 1750 to 1840, we
argue that they were very sophisticated. Before 1789, these markets evolyed in response to
the competition between the state and private borrowers. We find that a livre of long-term ...
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[CITATION] Organizing Middle-Sized Firms in the United States and France, 1830-2000

NR Lamoreaux… - Unpublished paper, 2003
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[CITATION] Analytic Narratives

JL Rosenthal… - 1998 - Princeton
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[CITATION] Rural Credit Markets and Aggregate Shocks: The Experience of Nuits St

JL Rosenthal - Georges, 1756
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[PDF] «The Size of the Ante: Inequality, Financial Markets and Growth in Paris, 1780‑1907»

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JL Rosenthal - 2002 - histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk
There are several arguments as to why wealth inequality matters for growth. On one side it is
argued inequality is good for growth because it reduces the cost of mobilizing capital.
Inequality is also beneficial because the wealthy can put their wealth in the credit market ...
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Contractual Tradeoffs and SMEs Choice of Organizational Form, A View from US and French History, 1830-2000

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NR Lamoreaux… - 2006 - nber.org
Today the vast majority of multi-owner firms in the United States are corporations, but that
was not the case in the past. Before the advent of the income tax, tort litigation, and
significant federal regulation, entrepreneurs more often than not chose to organize as ...
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[PDF] Corporate governance and the plight of minority shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression

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JL Rosenthal… - 2004 - econ.ucla.edu
The promoters... had their reasons for celebration....[T] hey had set up the Crédit Mobilier,
into whose chest the gains from contracts for the whole Union Pacific building had flowed....
The proceeds from government bonds, security sales, and sales of lands and town sites ...
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[PDF] Fiscal Regimes and Economic Growth; China and Europe, 1500-1800

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JL Rosenthal… - 2006 - federation.ens.fr
Note: This paper is intended to be Chapter 5 of a book on Europe and China in the pre-
Industrial period. Chapter 1 deals with demography and labor markets, Chapter 2 with
contract supporting institutions, Chapter 3 with warfare and the location of economic ...
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[PDF] The Old Economics of Information and the Remarkable Persistence of Traditional Credit Markets in France 1740-1899

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PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - 2007 - emlab.berkeley.edu
Abstract: Using enumerations of notarized loans in a sample of 108 towns for the years
1740, 1780, 1807, 1840, 1865 and 1899, and evidence about the location of bank offices
starting in 1829, we examine how banks and notaries competed. Because notaries only ...
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[CITATION] Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States

JL Rosenthal… - Unpublished working paper, 2004
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[CITATION] The Old Economics of Information and the Remarkable Persistence of Traditional Credit Markets in France 1740-1899

T Hoffman Philip, PV Gilles… - 2007 - Manuscript
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[CITATION] What do Notaries do? Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris

TP Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - Journal of Institutional and Theoretical …, 1751
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[CITATION] What do notaries do? Overcoming asymmetric information in financial markets: the case of 1751 Paris

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - … . Center for Advance Studies in the …, 1994
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[CITATION] Contractual Tradeoffs and SME'Choice or Organizational Form: A View from US and French History

NR Lamoreaux… - Unpublished paper, 2006
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[CITATION] Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660–1870

H Postel-Vinay, JL Rosenthal - 2000
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History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in Nineteenth-Century France

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - … Long-Run Economic …, 2011 - books.google.com
From his early articles on Early American manufacturing onward, much of Kenneth Sokoloff's
research focused on how access and distance to markets changed individual behavior and
in turn influenced subsequent market development. In particular, he emphasized the ...
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[CITATION] A Credit Market in Old-Regime France: Isle-sur-Sorgues, 1650-1788

JL Rosenthal - Explorations in Economic History (forthcoming)
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[CITATION] Credit Markets in Southeastern France 1650-1788

JL Rosenthal - UCLA Economics Working Papers, 1989 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. Credit Markets in Southeastern France 1650-1788.
Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Additional contact information Jean-Laurent Rosenthal: UCLA. No
589, UCLA Economics Working Papers from UCLA Department of Economics. ...
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[PDF] Is Trust an Ultimate Cause? Its Role in the Long Run Development of Financial Markets in France

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PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - 2007 - econ.yale.edu
Results Let us then examine the evidence from the regressions. Again, we have two
hypotheses to test: first, that trust was linked to social capital in the past, and second, that it
persists across time. The first hypothesis requires non-financial measures of social capital, ...
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Putting the Corporation in its Place

R Harris, T Guinnane, NR Lamoreaux… - Enterprise and …, 2007 - works.bepress.com
This article challenges the idea that the corporation is a globally superior form of business
organization and that the Anglo-American common-law is more conducive to economic
development than the code-based legal systems characteristic of continental Europe. ...
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[CITATION] The Burgundian Estates' Bond Market: Clienteles and Intermediaries, 1660-1790'

M Potter… - Des personnes aux institutions: Réseaux et cultures du …, 1997
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[PDF] Business Organization in the Long Run: Private Limited Companies Rule!

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T Guinnane, MM Center, R Harris, NR Lamoreaux… - 2006 - warwick.ac.uk
Abstract A long tradition in the economics, corporate law, and corporate finance literatures
presumes the general superiority of the corporation as a form of business organization. A
more recent tradition claims that the Anglo-American legal tradition affords greater ...
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The health cost of living in a city: The case of France at the end of the 19th century

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L Kesztenbaum… - Explorations in Economic History, 2011 - Elsevier
Despite a long standing debate over urban living conditions during industrialization, the
impact of rural–urban migrations on health and mortality remains an open question. We
observe both mortality and geographical mobility in a large longitudinal dataset of French ...
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Inherited vs Self-Made Wealth: Theory & Evidence from a Rentier Society (Paris 1872-1937)

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T Piketty, G Postel-Vinay… - CEPR Discussion Paper …, 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper divides the population into two groups: the" inheritors" or"
rentiers"(whose wealth is smaller than the capitalized value of their inherited wealth, ie who
consumed more than their labor income during their lifetime); and the" savers" or" self- ...
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[PDF] Inherited vs Self-Made Wealth: Theory & Evidence from a Rentier Society

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T Piketty, G Postel-Vinay… - 2010 - econ.yale.edu
Abstract: This paper divides the population into two groups: the “inheritors” or
“rentiers”(whose wealth is smaller than the capitalized value of their inherited wealth, ie who
consumed more than their labor income during their lifetime); and the “savers” or “self- ...
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In Memoriam: Ken Sokoloff

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JL Rosenthal, S Haber… - The Journal of …, 2007 - Cambridge Univ Press
Ken Sokoloff, age 54, Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles
passed away on 21 May 2007 following complications from liver cancer. Sokoloff was one of
the world's leading experts in economic history—the study of the long-term processes that ...
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[CITATION] Settlement, Litigation and the Drainage of Marshes in England and France

JL Rosenthal - UCLA Economics Working Papers, 1989 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. Settlement, Litigation and the Drainage of Marshes in England
and France. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal Additional contact information Jean-Laurent Rosenthal:
UCLA. No 561, UCLA Economics Working Papers from UCLA Department of Economics. ...
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[BOOK] The French Revolution and Financial Markets: A Look Beyond Government Debt

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JL Rosenthal… - 1992 - econ.ucla.edu
Abstract This paper analyses the French revolution's impact on a credit market in rural
France. The political instability and economic crises that rages between 1789 and 1797 left
local credit markets devastated. Population movements, uncertainty and the destruction of ...
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[CITATION] What do Notaries do? Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - UCLA Economics Working …, 1994 - ideas.repec.org
If you experience problems downloading a file, check if you have the proper application to
view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
further problems read the IDEAS help page. Note that these files are not on the IDEAS site ...
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[PDF] Discussion of Axel Leijonhufvud's" The Individual, the Market and the Division of Labor in Society"

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JL Rosenthal - Capitalism and Society, 2007 - capitalism.columbia.edu
Axel Leijonhufvud's article makes a set of very important points about the nature of economic
change. It highlights and then questions three interrelated dimensions of the secular process
of economic progress:(1) moving from reciprocity to a monetized mechanism for exchange ...
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State and private institutions

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D Bogart, M Drelichman… - … page intentionally left …, 2010 - books.google.com
Economic growth depends upon institutions (rules that constrain human behavior and their
enforcement mechanisms: North, 1981; Greif, 2006). Some of these rules arisebymeansof
apublicprocess, while othersareprivately adopted; some are explicit (written down as laws ...
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Comments on Cowen, Hanley, and Voth

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Economic History, 1997 - Cambridge Univ Press
Cowen, Hanley, and Voth have so ably summarized their work that I can avoid the exercise.
Instead I will attempt what my high school teachers dubbed a commentaire compose, a
reasoned discussion of the implications of their work guarded by a few remarks about the ...
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Making do with imperfect law: small firms in France and Germany, 1890-1935

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TW Guinnane… - Entreprises et histoire, 2010 - cairn.info
Résumé Cet article part d'une comparaison fine entre des entreprises similaires opérant au
même moment sous des lois très proches, dans deux pays, pour étudier la mise en œuvre
concrète de formes de sociétés originales, intermédiaires entre les sociétés traditionnelles ...
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[PDF] ROBERT H. BATES

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A GREIF, M LEVI, JL ROSENTHAL… - board.dklevine.com
Between the mid-seventeenth century and the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans
transformed their political and economic institutions to create modern states. Among the
many aspects of this transformation, I focus in this chapter on four that played a key role in ...
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[PDF] Unifying the European Experience: An Economic History of Modern Europe VOL. 1: 1700-1870

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D Bogart, M Drelichman, O Gelderblom… - socsci.uci.edu
Economic growth depends upon the political and economic institutions that distribute
political power and those that enable or hinder how individuals deploy their wealth, talent,
and effort. Institutions are the rules that constrain human behaviour and their enforcement ...
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Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy by Acemoglu, Daron and Robinson, James A.

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JL Rosenthal - American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 2009 - resolver.caltech.edu
The interconnection between political structure and economic policy has been a central area
of research in the social sciences; it has attracted attention from all the disciplines. Acemoglu
and Robinson's new book offers a set of theoretical models that address two central ...
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[PDF] The democratization of longevity: How the poor became old. Paris, 1880-1914.

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L Kesztenbaum… - federation.ens.fr
Abstract In the first decades of the 19th century, industrialized countries experienced both a
decline in urban mortality and the reversal of the rural-urban mortality differentials, once
vastly favorable to rural areas. This process can be linked with two broad phenomena: a ...
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[CITATION] Inequality in a Developing Economy; Paris and France 1807-1994 joint with Thomas Piketty and Gilles Postel-Vinay

JL Rosenthal - UCLA Economics Online Papers, 2004 - econpapers.repec.org
... Please update your bookmarks. Inequality in a Developing Economy; Paris and France
1807-1994 joint with Thomas Piketty and Gilles Postel-Vinay. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. No 307,
UCLA Economics Online Papers from UCLA Department of Economics. ...
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[PDF] Unifying the European Experience: Lessons of History for Pan-European Development" VOL. 1: 1700-1870

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D Bogart, M Drelichman, O Gelderblom… - cepr.org
2 investment, and business law? It is also important to note that, if by 1870 the notion of state
and nation were probably relatively similar across the continent, this was not the case in
1700. If anything has been contentious over the last three centuries it is the territorial ...
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[PDF] Warfare, Location of Manufacturing, and Economic Growth in China and Europe

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JL Rosenthal… - iga.ucdavis.edu
As we saw in Chapter 1 there is a great deal of debate about when China fell behind Europe
in per capita economic output. No one, however, disputes that China was not on a path
towards the mechanization of manufacturing in 1800. There is equal agreement that ...
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Ownership and Control in the Entrepreneurial Firm: An International History of Private Limited Companies

R Harris, TW Guinnane… - Annales. Histoire, …, 2007 - works.bepress.com
Abstract We use the history of private limited liability companies (PLLCs) to challenge two
pervasive assumptions in the literature:(1) Anglo-American legal institutions were better for
economic development than continental Europe's civil-law institutions; and (2) the ...

Session 2b: Wars And Structure Of Government

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P Hoffman… - The Journal of Economic History, 2001 - Cambridge Univ Press
Abstract Fiscal regimes have become progressively more centralized and though the trend
extends over nearly a millennium, the process accelerated in the early nineteenth century.
The growth of central government budgets as a fraction of the economy and relative to ...
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[BOOK] The Scope of Bargaining Failures With Complete Information

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D Porter, JL Rosenthal… - 1989 - econ.ucla.edu
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes bargaining under the split the difference mechanism when
there is complete information. There exists a multiplicity of equilibria, they all suffer from
unsatisfactory properties. Since anything seems possible, we focus on the completely ...
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[CITATION] Before and beyond divergence the politics of economic change in china and europe (hardback)

J ROSENTHAL… - Recherche, 2011 - lavoisier.fr
Livre: Before and beyond divergence the politics of economic change in china and
europe (hardback) ROSENTHAL Jean-laurent, WONG R. Bin.
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Modern Europe L'immobilier et la Révolution; Marché de la pierre et mutations urbaines, 1770–1810. By Gérard Béaur. Cahier des Annales# 44. Paris: Armand Cohn, …

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Economic History, 1995 - Cambridge Univ Press
In this short book Gerard Beaur tracks the evolution of the real-estate market in five medium
French cities between 1770 and 1810. To do so Beaur has marshaled an impressive data
base on all sales of real estate in Aix en Provence, La Rochelle, Montauban, Saint ...
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[PDF] Warfare and Taxation in Pre-Industrial Europe: Evidence from the Italian Risorgimento Mark Dincecco, Giovanni Federico, and Andrea Vindigni 21 July 2010 …

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M Pammer, A Rinaldi, JL Rosenthal, F Sobbrio… - 2010 - eh.net
Public finances are the sinews of state power. A growing theoretical literature examines the
interplay between wars, fiscal policy, and economic outcomes. 1 This literature takes
inspiration from historical works that investigate the relationships between external ...
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Steven L. Kaplan, La fin des corporationsLa fin des corporations. By Steven L. Kaplan. Translated by Béatrice Vierne. Paris: Fayard, with the assistance of the Centre …

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Modern History, 2004 - JSTOR
La fin des corporations examines the slow and convoluted demise of craft and commercial
guilds in France after 1776. These guilds performed a variety of functions in Old Regime
France: training new artisans, promoting standards for production, resolving business ...
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The editors and the Association wish to thank all those who were program commit-tee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, local arrangement …

L Brandt, C Buchheim, S Carter, J Cohen, D Costa… - Cambridge Univ Press
The editors and the Association wish to thank all those who were program commit- tee
members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, local arrangement committee
members, and the meetings coordinator. ... Daniel Bogart, University of California, Irvine ...

[PDF] History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in 19th Century France

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PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - 2008 - nber.org
From his early articles on Early American manufacturing to his work on comparative
economic development in the Americas, much of Kenneth Sokoloff's research focused on
how access to markets and initial levels of inequality changed individual behavior and in ...
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The Medieval Village Economy: A Study of the Pareto Mappings in General Equilibrium Models. By Robert M. Townsend. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, …

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Economic History, 1994 - Cambridge Univ Press
Download a branded Cambridge Journals Online toolbar (for IE 7 only). What is this? ... Add
Cambridge Journals Online as a search option in your browser toolbar. What is this? ... The
Medieval Village Economy: A Study of the Pareto Mappings in General Equilibrium ...
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective. By Robert Allen.(New Approaches to Economic and Social History Series.) Cambridge: Cambridge University …

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Economic History, 2010 - Cambridge Univ Press
... JEAN-LAURENT ROSENTHAL a1. a1 California Institute of Technology. ... JEAN-LAURENT
ROSENTHAL (2010) The Journal of Economic History, Volume 70, Issue 01, March 2010 pp
242-245 http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0022050710000136. ...
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was a compromise with a hierarchical society and not a leap toward modernity. William Beik Emory University

PT Hoffman, G Postel-Vinay… - MIT Press
Priceless Markets challenges the view that credit expansion in early modern Europe was the
result of such major institutional innovations as representative government and consolidated
government debt. The challenge is mounted on the evidence of notarial credit in Paris ...

[CITATION] Corporate Governance and the Plight of Minority Shareholders in the United States before the Great Depression. Joint with Naomi Lamoreaux

JL Rosenthal - UCLA Economics Online Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
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view it first. Information about this may be contained in the File-Format links below. In case of
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[CITATION] The development of modern Spain: Cambridge[ua]: Harvard Univ. Press, 2000

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JL Rosenthal - Journal of economic literature, 2002

DP4631 Wealth Concentration in a Developing Economy: Paris and France, 1807-1994

T Piketty, G Postel-Vinay… - 2004 - cepr.org
We use large samples of estate tax returns to construct new series on wealth concentration
in Paris and France from 1807 to 1994. Wealth concentration in Paris and in France
increased until World War I and then fell abruptly. The rise in inequality prior to WWI ...
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Public Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France and Great Britain, 1688–1789 by David StasavagePublic Debt and the Birth of the Democratic State: France …

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JL Rosenthal - The American Journal of Sociology, 2004 - JSTOR
In the century after an invasion that replaced a ruler who abused his powers, a small
peripheral country became the globe's most powerful country and its industrial workshop.
During the same hundred years, this country managed to run a succession of deficits of ...
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Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World. By Gregory Clark. The Princeton …

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JL Rosenthal - The Journal of Modern History, 2009 - JSTOR
For most economic historians, the Industrial Revolution is the defining moment of human
history. Beforehand, economic performance in all parts of the globe had remained in a tight
range between subsistence and a level not that much higher; since then, income ( ...
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ERE: European Review of Economic History 12.1 CVR INNERS BLACK

CÓ Gráda, J Reis, HJ Voth, C Burhop… - EUROPEAN …, 2011 - Cambridge Univ Press
... Denmark Riitta Hjerppe University of Helsinki, Finland John Komlos University of Munich, Germany
Sevket Pamuk Bosphorus University, Istanbul,Turkey Leandro Prados de la Escosura Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Jean-Laurent Rosenthal California Institute of ...
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[CITATION] Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United States during the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Joint with Naomi …

JL Rosenthal - UCLA Economics Online Papers, 2004 - econpapers.repec.org
... Legal Regime and Business's Organizational Choice: A Comparison of France and the United
States during the Mid-Nineteenth Century. Joint with Naomi Lamoreaux. Jean-Laurent Rosenthal.
No 309, UCLA Economics Online Papers from UCLA Department of Economics. ...
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[CITATION] Bargaining Costs and Failures in the Sealed-Bid Double Auction

D Porter… - Working Papers, 1990 - ideas.repec.org
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Inherited vs self-made wealth: theory & evidence from a rentier society (Paris 1872-1937)

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G Postel-Vinay, T Piketty… - 2011 - eprints.lse.ac.uk
This paper divides the population into two groups: the" inheritors" or" rentiers"(whose wealth
is smaller than the capitalized value of their inherited wealth, ie who consumed more than
their labor income during their lifetime); and the" savers" or" self-made men"(whose wealth ...

[CITATION] THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SPAIN: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES

JL Rosenthal - Journal of Economic Literature, 2002 - elibrary.ru
... Название публикации, THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SPAIN: AN ECONOMIC HISTORY
OF THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES. Авторы, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
Geographic Place: Spain. Журнал, Journal of Economic Literature. ...
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[PDF] Entry, Information, and Financial Development: A Century of Competition between French Banks and Notaries

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PT Hoffman… - federation.ens.fr
It is now common in development economics to put part of the blame for low levels of income
on poorly developed financial markets. 1 The same is true in economic history. 2 At bottom,
the argument is that barriers to entry or to the flow of information leave borrowers ...
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DP8411 Inherited vs Self-Made Wealth: Theory & Evidence from a Rentier Society (Paris 1872-1937)

T Piketty, G Postel-Vinay… - 2011 - cepr.org
This paper divides the population into two groups: the" inheritors" or" rentiers"(whose wealth
is smaller than the capitalized value of their inherited wealth, ie who consumed more than
their labor income during their lifetime); and the" savers" or" self-made men"(whose wealth ...
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The editors and the Association with to thank all those who were program committee members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, and local arrangements …

F Bateman, G Boyer, S Broadberry, L Cain… - Cambridge Univ Press
The editors and the Association with to thank all those who were program committee
members, chairs, discussants, dissertation conveners, and local arrangements committee members
at the 2002 Economic History Association Meetings. ... Fred Bateman, University of ...
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Analytic Narratives

RA Margo, RH Bates, A Grief, M Levi… - Journal article by …, 1999 - questia.com
In the early years of the Cliometric Revolution, the application of economic theory and
econometrics to history was oriented primarily towards traditional issues of production,
consumption, and growth and tended to use mainstream neoclassical tools (linear ...

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