tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10414359845358433612024-02-18T23:15:56.120-03:00Patricia A. SaporitiDifusión de temas de historia económica mundial: reseñas de libros, artículos, links, comentarios.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-6756003636382152642018-07-13T07:57:00.000-03:002018-07-13T07:57:06.871-03:00Artículos: The age of mass migration in Latin America<div style="text-align: justify; transform-origin: 0px -16px 0px; transform: scale(0.974359);">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #212121;">Blanca Sánchez-Alonso, Universidad CEU-San Pablo, publicó </span><span style="color: #212121;"><b><a href="http://www.ehes.org/EHES_134.pdf" target="_blank">The age of mass migration in Latin America</a></b>, </span><span style="color: #212121;">como </span>EHES Working Paper No. 134, July 2018. En su abstract resume: "The experiences of Latin American countries are not fully incorporated into current debates concerning the age of mass migration even though 13 million Europeans migrated to the region between 1870 and 1930. This paper draws together different aspects of the Latin America immigration experience. Its main objective is to rethink the role of European migration to the region, addressing several major questions in the economics of migration: whether immigrants were positively selected from their sending countries, how immigrants assimilated into the host economies, the role of immigration policies, and the long-run effects of immigration. Immigrants came from the economically backward areas of Southern and Eastern Europe, yet their adjustment to the host labour markets in Latin America seems to have been successful. The possibility of rapid social upgrading made Latin America attractive for European immigrants. Migrants were positively selected from origin according to literacy. The most revealing aspect of new research is showing the positive long-run effects that European immigrants had in Latin American countries. The political economy of immigration policies deserves new research, particularly for Brazil and Cuba. The case of Argentina shows a more complex scenario than the classic representation of landowners constantly supporting an open-door policy."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ver working paper <b><a href="http://www.ehes.org/EHES_134.pdf" target="_blank">acá</a></b> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.uregina.ca/arts/sociology-social-studies/faculty-staff/faculty/magnan-andre.html" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">André Magnan</a> publicó <span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://aax-us-east.amazon-adsystem.com/x/c/QqmjStW-hgpLcCG3Xq8xK94AAAFj0BzuJwEAAAFKAX31xCk/http://www.amazon.com/dp/0774831146/ref=as_at?creativeASIN=0774831146&linkCode=w61&imprToken=PAvFCkL8hq7UKa.UtLQmPg&slotNum=0&tag=newbooinhis-20" rel="noopener" style="box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank">When Wheat Was King: The Rise and Fall of the Canada-UK Grain Trade</a></span> (University of British Columbia Press, 2016). </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">David Fouser (Santa Monica College, Laguna College of Art & Design, and Chapman University) lo entrevista al respecto. Ver presentación y link a a la entrevista </span><b style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="http://newbooksnetwork.com/andre-magnan-when-wheat-was-king-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-canada-uk-grain-trade-u-british-columbia-press-2016/" target="_blank">acá</a></b></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-45385137270221659942018-06-22T06:30:00.000-03:002018-07-09T23:10:36.559-03:00Artículo: The Industrialization of South America Revisited: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010<div style="border: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.71429; margin-bottom: 1.71429rem; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Gerardo della Paolera (<a href="https://people.ceu.edu/gerardo_della-paolera" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Central European University</a>), Xavier Durán (<a href="https://perfilprofesores.uniandes.edu.co/perfil/xh.duran21/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Universidad de los Andes</a>), y Aldo Musacchio (<a href="http://people.brandeis.edu/~aldom/" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Brandeis University</a>) publicaron <a href="https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:nbr:nberwo:24345" target="_blank">The Industrialization of South America Revisited: Evidence from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Colombia, 1890-2010</a>, en cuyo a<span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">bstract se lee: "</span>We use new manufacturing GDP time series to examine the industrialization in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Colombia since the early twentieth century. We uncover variation across countries and over time that the literature on industrialization had overlooked. Rather than providing a single explanation of how specific shocks or policies shaped the industrialization of the region, our argument is that the timing of the industrial take off was linked to initial conditions, while external shocks and macroeconomic and trade policy explain the variation in the rates of industrialization after the 1930s and favorable terms of trade and liberalization explain deindustrialization after 1990."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #b6d7a8;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Fue comentado en el blog </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The NEP-HIS</span></span><span style="border: 0px; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> por </span><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Thales Zamberlan Pereira (</span><a href="https://usp-br.academia.edu/ThalesPereira" style="border: 0px; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Universidade Franciscana</a><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px;">): ver enlace </span><a href="https://nephist.wordpress.com/tag/deindustrialization/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">aquí</a><span style="border: 0px; color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-12398624071670692282018-06-15T17:09:00.000-03:002018-07-09T23:11:10.626-03:00Curso: El Mediterráneo, espacio de intercambios<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #373a3c;">Universitat de Barcelona ofrece en Cousera el </span><span style="color: #373a3c; white-space: pre-wrap;">curso <b><i>El Mediterráneo, espacio de intercambios (del Renacimiento a la Ilustración)</i></b> en el que se presenta </span></span><span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">el Mediterráneo </span><span style="color: #373a3c; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">desde la historia y el análisis del pasado, como un espacio generado por las rutas y las circulaciones. En su resumen leemos "Consideramos necesario divulgar la movilidad como factor histórico. Una movilidad centrada en cuatro grandes ámbitos: las personas, los objetos, las ideas y las prácticas. Al analizar la realidad mediterránea entre los siglos XV y XIX, del Renacimiento a la Ilustración, ponemos un foco especial en su orilla occidental, un área abocada a la transferencia y el intercambio, tanto en el ámbito social y económico como en el político y cultural, con la Península Ibérica, las islas y la Península Itálica como espacios de gran dinamismo." <b>Comienza el 29 de junio</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #373a3c; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Este curso no tiene una prueba gratuita de 7 días con acceso completo, sin embargo se puede participar como oyente y acceder a ciertos contenidos de manera gratuita. </span></span></span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-4610689935152323242018-05-25T08:33:00.000-03:002018-05-25T08:34:05.760-03:00Blogs: Poche Storie - A Concise Blog on Italian Economic History<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><em>ASE </em>(<em>Associazione per la Storia Economica) presentó</em> "Poche Storie - A Concise Blog on Italian Economic History"; blog con los abstracts de la <a href="http://eh.net/?nltr=MTU3MDs0NjU2O2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm11bGluby5pdC9yaXZpc3RlL2lzc24vMDM5My0zNDE1Ozs2MDRkYTA1NTk5MDJlMWFjYmRhMTc5ODMzZWY5YzMzMg%3D%3D" style="outline: 0px;"><em>Rivista di Storia Economica</em></a>. <a href="http://eh.net/?nltr=MTU3MDs0NjU2O2h0dHA6Ly9hc3NvY2lhemlvbmVzdG9yaWFlY29ub21pY2EuY29tL25ld3MvcG9jaGUtc3RvcmllLWNhcHBlbGxpLXB1dG5hbS87OzQ2ZGFjNWIyMjBiODZmMDM3MTU5MzQwNTBiN2QxMDhj" style="outline: 0px;">La primera entrada</a> fue publicada por Gabriele Cappelli (UAB), quien resume su paper "Was Putnam wrong? The determinants of social capital in Italy around 1900" (<em><a href="https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1410/89359">Rivista di Storia Economica, </a></em><a href="https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1410/89359">a. XXXIII, n. 3, December 2017</a>). Para recibir información es posible suscribirse al <a href="http://eh.net/?nltr=MTU3MDs0NjU2O2h0dHBzOi8vYXNzb2NpYXppb25lc3RvcmlhZWNvbm9taWNhLnVzMTcubGlzdC1tYW5hZ2UuY29tL3N1YnNjcmliZT91PTgyMzYyOTY5ZGY2YThkY2Q3NmZjZWY5MjYmaWQ9YmI5NzRkNjQ4ZTs7MGNiODYzZTUzNzkxZTBiN2UxYjUyZTc3MTk3YmJiNDU%3D" style="outline: 0px;">newsletter</a> (en italiano).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ver enlace a A<span style="color: #444444;">ssociazione storia economica <b><a href="http://associazionestoriaeconomica.com/" target="_blank">acá</a></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #93c47d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ver enlace a <i>Poche Storie - A Concise Blog on Italian Economic History</i> <b><a href="http://associazionestoriaeconomica.com/news/poche-storie-cappelli-putnam/" target="_blank">aquí</a></b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-13808070458760358702018-05-04T10:13:00.000-03:002018-05-04T10:13:07.153-03:00Artículos: Business cycle narratives<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pla789.htm">Vegard Larsen</a> and <a href="https://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth175.htm">Leif Thorsrud</a> publicaron <b><a href="https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/bnywpaper/0064.htm" target="_blank">Business cycle narratives</a>,</b> en cuyo resumen leemos "This article quantifies the epidemiology of media narratives relevant to business cycles in the US, Japan, and Europe (euro area). We do so by first constructing daily business cycle indexes computed on the basis of the news topics the media writes about. At a broad level, the most in uential news narratives are shown to be associated with general macroeconomic developments, finance, and (geo-)politics. However, a large set of narratives contributes to our index estimates across time, especially in times of expansion. In times of trouble, narratives associated with economic uctuations become more sparse. Likewise, we show that narratives do go viral, but mostly so when growth is low. While narratives interact in complicated ways, we document that some are clearly associated with economic fundamentals. Other narratives, on the other hand, show no such relationship, and are likely better explained by classical work capturing the market's animal spirits."</div>
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Ver enlace <b><a href="https://econpapers.repec.org/paper/bnywpaper/0064.htm" target="_blank">aquí</a></b></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-70455801447808523322018-04-30T10:32:00.000-03:002018-04-30T10:32:21.428-03:00Bases de datos: WORLD TRADE HISTORICAL DATA BASE<div class="" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16.1347px;">
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Como siempre, Bernardo <span style="font-size: 16.1347px;">Bátiz-Lazo gentilmente</span><span style="font-size: 12.101pt;"> nos informa sobre grandes novedades de interés mediante sus comunicaciones. En este caso, difundimos que </span><a href="https://www.uc3m.es/tradehist_db" style="font-size: 12.101pt;" target="_blank">The <b>WORLD TRADE HISTORICAL DATA BASE</b> </a><span style="font-size: 12.101pt;"> (Universidad Carlos III) p</span><span style="font-size: 12.101pt;">uede consultarse para localizar series de importaciones y exportaciones en dólares corrientes y constantes para muchísimos países desde 1800, junto a información adicional sobre la composición del comercio, los términos del intercambio, fletes, precios, etc. Incluye detallada nota metodológica. Cualquier consulta puede dirigirse a</span><span style="font-size: 12.101pt;"> Antonio Tena-Junguito (</span><a class="" href="mailto:antonio.tena@uc3m.es" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="" style="font-size: 12.101pt; line-height: 22.5885px;">antonio.tena@uc3m.es</a><span style="font-size: 12.101pt;">)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-35997777060030900152018-04-06T06:00:00.000-03:002018-04-06T06:00:55.517-03:00Artículos: How to become a leader in an emerging new global market: The determinants of French wine exports, 1848-1938<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="m_5497325882408723324_p15" style="background-color: white;"><span class="m_5497325882408723324paper_title" style="font-weight: 600;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"></span></span></a><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a class="m_5497325882408723324external" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=es&q=http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus%3DMar%C3%ADa%2520IsabelAyuda&source=gmail&ust=1522929780430000&usg=AFQjCNHWLaYIegeBtrEikqGjw6WiaETjKw" href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Mar%C3%ADa%20IsabelAyuda" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">María Isabel Ayuda</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(Universidad de Zaragoza, Department of Economic Analysis, Faculty of Economics and Business Studies) ;</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a class="m_5497325882408723324external" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=es&q=http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus%3DHugo%2520Ferrer-P%C3%A9rez&source=gmail&ust=1522929780430000&usg=AFQjCNEvlsLt3qulLHggYIzjRRjw-UgrBg" href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Hugo%20Ferrer-P%C3%A9rez" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">Hugo Ferrer-Pérez</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">(CREDA-UPC-IRTA, Edifici ESAB-PMT) y</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><a class="m_5497325882408723324external" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=es&q=http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus%3DVicente%2520Pinilla&source=gmail&ust=1522929780430000&usg=AFQjCNHBEwaMKTTRX-UVzwDh5VNqI6IH4w" href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Vicente%20Pinilla" style="font-weight: 400;" target="_blank">Vicente Pinilla</a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> (Universidad de Zaragoza and Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón -IA2- (Universidad de Zaragoza-CITA), Department of Applied Economics) publicaron </span><span class="m_5497325882408723324paper_title"><a href="http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hes:wpaper:0124&r=his" target="_blank">How to become a leader in an emerging new global market: The determinants of French wine exports, 1848-1938</a>, </span><span class="m_5497325882408723324paper_title" style="font-weight: 400;">cuyo resumen señala "</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">When studying the emergence of new global markets it is essential to consider how countries and companies compete to obtain advantageous positions. Our objective is to study how France obtained an initial leadership position in the new global wine market which it subsequently consolidated. We will also analyse the main determinants of its exporting success. In order to do this we have quantified its exports and examined its evolution and its principal export markets. We have also used a gravity model for both ordinary wine and high quality wine in order to establish the key variables that explain this evolution. The article highlights the great efforts made by the exporters to improve the quality of their products and increase their sales using modern marketing techniques. Our econometric results also show some significant differences between the determinants of exports for the two types of wine. However, the exports of both products suffered the strong impact of a series of major events, such as The First World War, the Russian Revolution, the Prohibition in the United States and the Great Depression. The case of wine shows that the collapse of the first globalisation was not the same for all types of product."</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-57324455975006210382018-03-30T07:00:00.000-03:002018-07-09T23:12:04.427-03:00Artículos: Age at Arrival and Assimilation during the Age of Mass Migration<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-57792080083733895182017-10-31T17:10:00.000-03:002017-10-31T17:10:05.982-03:00Artículos: Two Great Trade Collapses: The Intewar Period & Great Recession Compared<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=KevinHjortsh%C3%B8j%20O%27Rourke">Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke</a> (del All Souls College, U de Oxford) publicó su versión preliminar del paper <b><a href="https://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/materials/working_papers/4543/159orourke.pdf" target="_blank">Two Great Trade Collapses: The Intewar Period & Great Recession Compared</a></b>, preparado para la Conferencia (IMF-BNM-IMFER) Globalization in the Aftermath of the Crisis and the IMF Economic Review.</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Después de un receso, recomenzamos la difusión de temas de historia económica. ¿Cómo no hacerlo con la información sobre el XVIII Congreso de Historia Económica Mundial, a realizarse en Boston entre el 29 de julio y el 3 de agosto de 2018?</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #6aa84f;">Mesas aceptadas <a href="http://wehc2018.org/accepted/" target="_blank">ver aquí</a></span></b></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-45608872607524887132017-07-28T07:45:00.000-03:002017-07-28T07:45:31.707-03:00Libros: Measuring Wellbeing: A History of Italian Living Standards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Giovanni Vecchi publicó <a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199944590.001.0001/acprof-9780199944590" target="_blank">Measuring Wellbeing: A History of Italian Living Standards</a>, (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvii + 645 pp., $99 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-19-994459-0), que fue reseñado para EH.net por </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Chiara Natalie Focacci, Andrea Incerpi, Marco Molteni, Giovanni Maria Pala, y Andrea Ramazzotti. Ellos señalan: "</span><em style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Measuring Wellbeing</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">offers a multidimensional, quantitative analysis of Italian living standards from the country’s unification in 1861 to the present day. In doing so, it goes beyond the misleading identification of living standards with strictly monetary indexes, broadening the focus to include measures of physical wellbeing and social indicators... </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ver enlace a información sobre el libro <b><a href="http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199944590.001.0001/acprof-9780199944590" target="_blank">aquí</a></b></span></div>
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<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Giovanni Vecchi collaborates with eighteen scholars from a range of universities and research institutions to take stock of the latest research in their areas. Each chapter deals with a different dimension of wellbeing and is co-authored by Vecchi and other economic historians. All chapters include an appendix on sources and methodology. The book presents new as well as pre-existing estimates of welfare indicators at the national and regional level, and — when possible — puts these in international perspective. Many of the estimates are drawn from Vecchi’s previous book,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><em style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">In Ricchezza e in Povertà</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(2011).</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><em style="color: #212121; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Measuring Wellbeing</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">expands on and brings to the international audience the work done for the Italian edition.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As stated in the introduction, the book is not intended as a definitive work. It is instead a landmark which organizes for the reader the research conducted so far. It is a meticulous attempt to provide scholars with a sound, heterogeneous picture of the latest knowledge on the evolution of Italian living standards. Nonetheless, the book refrains from dealing with the “deep” causes underlying the measures it surveys. In this sense, it is conceived as a methodological work and a platform for future research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The book has two souls. It will interest the Italianist as both an accessible introduction and an authoritative reference on living standards in Italy from a quantitative perspective. Equally though it should appeal to scholars interested in Italy as a case study for the analysis of wellbeing. It deals with the issues in a clear (at times pedagogical) way, making this book an ideal starting point even for students outside the boundaries of economics eager to approach the issue of living standards rigorously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Perhaps Vecchi’s most significant contribution regards the innovative method of exploiting historical household budgets as a micro-data source to study poverty and inequality. Historical application of this approach was pioneered in Rossi, Vecchi and Toniolo (2001); a more recent assessment can be found in A’Hearn, Amendola and Vecchi (2016). The chapter on “Household Budgets” (chapter 13, whose coauthor is Stefano Chianese) presents a collection of almost 20,000 Italian household budgets from 1861 to present. This collection is part of the larger Historical Household Budgets Project (HHB: http://hhbproject.com/the-project).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Italian Household Budgets Database (IHBD) includes both the typical statistics and surveys produced by institutions such as ISTAT (Italian Statistical Office) or the Bank of Italy, and documents from family archives, trade unions, cultural institutions, and personnel records of public and private employers. In the database, proper historical household budgets are also combined, controversially but interestingly, with so-called “synthetic,” hypothetical households. In addition to earnings and expenses, these sources provide micro-evidence also on other socio-demographic characteristics. The problem of such an ad hoc collection not being a representative sample is addressed using post-stratification techniques and census data to weigh observations appropriately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IHBD is then employed as a basis for estimating monetary indicators of the distribution of wellbeing, such as inequality (chapter 8; with Nicola Amendola) and poverty (chapter 9; with Amendola and Fernando Salsano). Historical household budgets are also used in developing a novel indicator of vulnerability (chapter 11; with Mariacristina Rossi and Lucia Latino), assessing “how the living conditions of the Italians have been – and are still – conditioned by the presence of risk and uncertainty” (p. 416), i.e. the risk of falling into poverty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Among other monetary indicators, the authors reconstruct national and regional estimates of income (chapter 7; with Alessandro Brunetti and Emanuele Felice), and wealth (chapter 10; with Luigi Cannari and Giovanni D’Alessio). A chapter on the cost of living (chapter 14; with Amendola) problematizes the issue of temporal as well as spatial price differences in a historical perspective, emphasizing how good price indexes are essential to getting accurate monetary indicators — especially in countries like Italy where regional disparities are substantial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Producing original estimates or linking existing but scattered series, the authors address physical wellbeing by analyzing nutrition (chapter 1; with Marina Sorrentino), height (chapter 2; with Brian A’Hearn), and health (chapter 3, with Vincenzo Atella and Silvia Francisci). To further investigate non-monetary dimensions, the authors consider education (chapter 5; with A’Hearn), migration (chapter 6; with Matteo Gomellini and Cormac Ó Grada) and the human development index (chapter 12; with Amendola and Giacomo Gabbuti). An original exploration of child labor is provided in Chapter 4 (with Francesco Cinnirella and Gianni Toniolo).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Remarkably, the fourteen chapters are preceded by an introduction but not followed by a conclusion summarizing the main findings and trends. The work is indeed a kaleidoscope, from which no mosaic emerges: the tiles are given, but their arrangement is left to the interpretation and judgment of the reader. A reason for this choice can be discerned in the chapter on the Human Development Index. In this “non-conclusive conclusion,” a one-dimensional synthesis of wellbeing is strongly rejected by the authors, who regard a reductive summary of the complex picture of Italian living standards in the long run as both impractical and undesirable. This approach is at the same time the strongest and weakest point of the book.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">One of the factors that makes it hard to give a summary overview of Italian living standards in historical perspective is the issue of regional disparities. Monetary indicators all reflect the long-lasting divide between the North and the South of the country. The chapter on income assesses the prevalence of the North-South divide relative to region-specific determinants of geographic variation since the 1930s, and identifies a short-lived period of convergence starting in the 1950s and driven by publicly funded development projects. Regional polarization looms large over inequality, poverty risk, the distribution of wealth, and the dynamics of vulnerability. At first glance, lagging regions appear to have fared better on non-monetary dimensions of wellbeing, as convergence was stronger for key indicators such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Closer scrutiny reveals that convergence, though real, was slow and subject to setbacks and reversals. The chapter on height provides a particularly close examination of the persistence of regional divides in a context of general progress. The analysis delivers a nuanced picture, where local economic conditions prevail over the efforts of national policymaking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The book also casts light on the understudied effects of industrialization on the living standards of the Italians. Although they maintain a certain reticence, the authors argue that Italian industrialization was relatively benign. Such conclusion is sustained by findings presented throughout the book. For instance, after discussing alternative strategies, Vecchi, Amendola and Salsano settle on an Orshansky-type poverty line, which is absolute, but adapts to a changing economic and social context. On this basis they estimate a remarkable series of absolute poverty incidence for the whole post-unification period, finding that poverty fell almost continuously, except for short-lived spells that do not coincide with the decades of stronger industrialization. Moreover, the authors estimate that the growth effect almost always favored “a reduction in poverty,” while “the variations in income redistribution have always had an adverse effect on absolute poverty” (p. 368): the “growth effect” has largely offset this “inequality effect.”[1]. A “benign” industrialization also appears in the anthropometric data, as the average stature of the Italian population “never experience[d] any falls” (p. 58), which might be expected in “industrializing areas undergoing rapid urbanization” (p. 59). As a final example, child labor — whose incidence was extremely high in 1881 – “dropped quite sharply during the first stages of industrialisation (1881-1911)” (p. 154) and again during the “economic miracle” (from the 1950s to the mid 1960s), a pattern which contrasts with recent findings on other European countries.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Another general conclusion that seems to emerge is that the achievements of the past should not be taken for granted. On a number of indicators documented in the book (e.g. child labor, income, inequality) recent years have witnessed a partial reversal of the remarkable leaps forward of the post-war “Golden Age.” However, as the authors claim in the closing of the chapter on income: “caution is the watchword, here, since we lack a suitable temporal perspective in order to judge whether the malaise is temporary (albeit prolonged), reversible, or irreparable” (p. 289).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Vecchi’s <em>Measuring Wellbeing</em> is a brave study attempting to fill the gap within the Italian economic history literature on quantifying living standards. The concept of wellbeing is presented as multifaceted and the book also explores non-orthodox dimensions. Unfortunately, it is difficult for the reader to reach an all-embracing conclusion (especially without background knowledge of Italian history), but this is not the authors\’ final aim, and this shortcoming is compensated by the relevant methodological contributions that this book presents. This is an innovative and important work and ought to interest both economists and historians — not necessarily just “Italianists.” With regards to Italy, it will soon become the standard reference on the topic of wellbeing, providing scholars with a springboard for their present and future research.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As defined by the authors, “The first is interpreted as the variation in poverty that would be observed if there were no variation in income distribution during the period concerned; the second effect is interpreted as the variation in poverty that would be observed if average income did not vary during the period” (p. 368).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Brian A’Hearn, Nicola Amendola, and Giovanni Vecchi. 2016. “On Historical Household Budgets,” <em>Rivista di Storia Economica</em>, issue 2: 137-76.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Nicola Rossi, Gianni Toniolo, and Giovanni Vecchi. 2001. “Is the Kuznets Curve Still Alive? Evidence from Italian Household Budgets, 1881-1961,” <em>Journal of Economic History</em>, 61 (4): 904-25.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Giovanni Vecchi. 2011. <em>In Ricchezza e in povertà: il benessere degli italiani dall’Unità a oggi</em>. Bologna, Italy: Il Mulino.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The authors of this review are students in the graduate program in Economic and Social History at the University of Oxford.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-56890746672361270492017-07-21T06:07:00.000-03:002017-07-21T06:07:08.382-03:00Bases de datos: Historical Household Budgets Project<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">El proyecto <b><a href="http://hhbproject.com/the-project/" target="_blank">Historical Household Budgets</a></b> pretende reunir información sobre los <b><a href="http://hhbproject.com/the-project/#how-are-household-budgets-defined" target="_blank">presupuestos de hogares</a></b> de los últimos dos siglos para analizar los cambios de largo plazo. En su presentación señalan que el enfoque inicial es la construcción de una base de datos de múltiples temas de los presupuestos de los hogares desde 1800 hasta la actualidad, junto con las medidas asociadas de los niveles de vida. La base de datos histórica de presupuestos de hogares (<b><a href="http://hhbproject.com/the-project/#historical-household-budget-database" target="_blank">HHBD</a></b>) disponible para investigadores incluye cerca de 500 variables, entre ellas: consumo, ingresos y riqueza, salarios y precios al por menor, educación y salud, antropometría y fertilidad, empleo y migración, vivienda, agricultura, acceso al crédito y exposición a los shocks, provenientes de diversas fuentes. Una iniciativa complementaria es la creación de una <a href="http://dev.hhbproject.com/about-us/" target="_blank">red de investigadores</a> que comparten datos y desarrollan técnicas para trabajar con los presupuestos de los hogares. Una serie documentos de trabajo promueve la difusión de la investigación en curso.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Ver enlace <b><a href="http://hhbproject.com/" target="_blank">aquí</a></b></span></div>
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The initial focus of the HHB project is the construction of a multi-topic database of household budgets from 1800 to the present day, together with associated measures of living standards. The <a href="http://hhbproject.com/the-project/#historical-household-budget-database" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Historical Household Budgets Database</u></span></a> (HHBD) comprises ca. 500 variables including consumption, income and wealth, wages and retail prices, education and health, anthropometrics and fertility, employment and migration, housing, agriculture, access to credit, and exposure to shocks. The HHBD, along with an extensive collection of <a href="http://hhbproject.com/hhb-sources/" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">references</u></span></a> is made available to scholars around the world.</div>
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A complementary initiative is the creation of a <a href="http://dev.hhbproject.com/about-us/" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">network of researchers</span></u></a> who provide and share data, further develop techniques for working with household budgets not collected in the context of modern probabilistic surveys, and undertake substantive research into the history of poverty and inequality. Without imposing top-down direction, the HHB project provides a degree of coordination and direction to the collective effort of this network. A dedicated <a href="http://dev.hhbproject.com/working-papers/" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">working paper series</u></span></a> promotes the dissemination of on-going research</div>
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The initial focus of the HHB project is the construction of a multi-topic database of household budgets from 1800 to the present day, together with associated measures of living standards. The <a href="http://hhbproject.com/the-project/#historical-household-budget-database" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_self"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Historical Household Budgets Database</u></span></a> (HHBD) comprises ca. 500 variables including consumption, income and wealth, wages and retail prices, education and health, anthropometrics and fertility, employment and migration, housing, agriculture, access to credit, and exposure to shocks. The HHBD, along with an extensive collection of <a href="http://hhbproject.com/hhb-sources/" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">references</u></span></a> is made available to scholars around the world.</div>
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A complementary initiative is the creation of a <a href="http://dev.hhbproject.com/about-us/" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">network of researchers</span></u></a> who provide and share data, further develop techniques for working with household budgets not collected in the context of modern probabilistic surveys, and undertake substantive research into the history of poverty and inequality. Without imposing top-down direction, the HHB project provides a degree of coordination and direction to the collective effort of this network. A dedicated <a href="http://dev.hhbproject.com/working-papers/" style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e64d4e; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: HalisGR-Medium, sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><u style="background-clip: padding-box !important; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">working paper series</u></span></a> promotes the dissemination of on-going research</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-89416397005909879252017-07-14T10:29:00.000-03:002017-07-14T10:31:44.533-03:00Blogs: The Economic and Business History Society<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">En el </span><a href="http://ebhsoc.org/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;" target="_blank">blog de The Economic and Business History Society</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">, destacan el número especial de EEBH, en honor a Christer Lundh, profesor de Historia Económica de la U. de Gothenburg, Suecia. Sobre el mismo resumen: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"The original research articles published in this volume expand upon Lund’s work in historical demography and labor market research among other topics. These articles illustrate the strength of social science history and also demonstrate the vast potential of historical research to contribute to answering societal questions in the present day. This issue is guest edited by Susanna Fellman, Stefan Öberg and Klas Rönnbäck, all of the University of Gothenburg."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ver enlace al blog <b><a href="http://ebhsoc.org/" target="_blank">acá</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ver enlace al número especial de EEBH <b><a href="http://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/journal/issue/view/22" target="_blank">aquí</a></b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-67946582393742721512017-07-07T07:34:00.000-03:002017-07-14T10:32:34.131-03:00Blogs: The Data We Have vs. the Data We Need: A Comment on the State of the “Divergence” Debate<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">En marzo dimos cuenta del artículo de Deng y O´Brien (</span><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/pramprapa/77276.htm" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How Well Did Facts Travel to Support Protracted Debate on the History of the Great Divergence between Western Europe and Imperial China?</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">). El tema es fuente de innumerables debates. En </span><a href="https://nephist.wordpress.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The NEP-HIS Blog</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> se publicaron algunos comentarios de K. Pomeranz: </span></div>
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<li><a href="https://nephist.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-data-we-have-vs-the-data-we-need-a-comment-on-the-state-of-the-divergence-debate-part-i/">The Data We Have vs. the Data We Need: A Comment on the State of the “Divergence” Debate (Part I)</a>, con una respuesta de Batson al post fue <a href="https://andrewbatson.com/2017/06/07/the-divergence-over-the-great-divergence-is-narrowing/">The divergence over the Great Divergence is narrowing</a></li>
<li><a href="https://nephist.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-data-we-have-vs-the-data-we-need-a-comment-on-the-state-of-the-divergence-debate-part-ii/">The Data We Have vs. the Data We Need: A Comment on the State of the “Divergence” Debate (Part II)</a>, con un comentario interesante el de <a href="https://nephist.wordpress.com/2017/06/06/the-data-we-have-vs-the-data-we-need-a-comment-on-the-state-of-the-divergence-debate-part-ii/#comments">Bátiz-Lazo</a></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-35007181211633463652017-06-30T07:17:00.000-03:002017-06-30T07:17:09.615-03:00Docencia: Recursos de historia económica, social y política<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Interesantísimo proyecto volcado en el sitio <b><a href="http://www.ub.edu/histecorecursos/" target="_blank">Recursos de historia económica, social y política</a></b>, orientado a mejorar el proceso de aprendizaje de la historia económica en las enseñanzas de economía y empresa. Financiado por la Agencia de Gestión de Ayudas Universitarias y de Investigación AGAUR mediante concurso público de ayudas para la financiación de proyectos para la mejora de la calidad en las universidades catalanas, cuyo responsable es el Dr. Miguel Gutiérrez Poch y el becario del proyecto es el estudiante Santiago Colmenares G. El proyecto forma parte de las actividades del Grupo de innovación docente (2009GID-UB / 09: Grupo de innovación docente en la Historia Económica, Política y Social) del Departamento de Historia e Instituciones Económicas de la Universidad de Barcelona. B</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">usca promover el conocimiento, difusión y utilización de diferentes herramientas disponibles online (bases de datos, bases documentales y de fuentes primarias, webs institucionales, colección de imágenes, mapas, vídeos y audios, información general sobre eventos históricos específicos, etc.). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ver enlace <b><a href="http://www.ub.edu/histecorecursos/" target="_blank">acá</a></b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-14688237645071878132017-06-23T16:58:00.000-03:002017-06-23T16:59:01.658-03:00Bases de datos: Estadísticas industriales de Rusia<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Suhara,Manabu" target="_blank">Manabu Suhara</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">publicó el paper <a href="http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hit:rrcwps:66&r=his" target="_blank">Russian Industrial Statistics</a>. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Su resumen nos indica: "</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Historical
Russian statistics on industry are discussed in this paper. Russia attained
impressive economic development in the century from the emancipation of Russian
serfs to around 1960, although growth was interrupted by the October Revolution,
the Civil War, and World War II. The mainspring of Russia’s advancement was
industrial growth. The mainly agrarian economy, in which the rural population
accounted for about 80% of the total at the end of the 19th century, underwent
a complete change in economic structure. This Russian success, however, came to
an end at the end of the 1950s and beginning of the 1960s. The mining and
manufacturing industries, which until then had led the economy, lost vigor, and
the industrial economy as a whole withered. This deterioration led to the
collapse of the Soviet Union by the end of the 20th century and the start of
systemic transformation to capitalism. In this paper we look back at the
history of Russia from the viewpoint of industrial statistics. In the first
section, we adopt a general view of industrial statistics in Russia under the
Tsarist regime. Some estimates of production indices for the industry of the
Russian Empire are presented and compared. Then in the second section,
production, labor, and capital statistics for Russian industry in the Soviet
era are discussed, followed by the third section, in which changes in
industrial statistics for Russia’s new era are summarized."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ver enlace <b><a href="http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hit:rrcwps:66&r=his" target="_blank">acá</a></b></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-34283808783006348632017-06-16T16:49:00.000-03:002017-06-23T17:01:05.916-03:00Artículo: The Relationship between Psychology and Economics: Insights from the History of Economic Thought<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Drakopoulos,Stavros%20A." style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Stavros A</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">. D</span><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Drakopoulos,Stavros%20A." style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">rakopoulos</a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> y </a><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Katselidis,Ioannis" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Ioannis Katselidis</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> publicaron </span><a href="http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:77485&r=his" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Relationship between Psychology and Economics: Insights from the History of Economic Thought</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">, en cuyo resumen indican "</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Psychological ideas had always played a role on the formation of economic thought as can be seen in the works of many influential pre-classical and classical authors. Up to the beginning of the 20th century, there was almost no methodological objection regarding the incorporation of ideas from psychology into economic theories. After this period, a fundamental shift in mainstream economics took place which is also known as the Paretian turn. This conceptual change, initiated mainly by Vilfredo Pareto and completed with the emergence of the theories of choice in the first decades of the 20th century, attempted to expel all psychological notions from economic theory. However, in the last three decades, the increasing appeal of subjective well-being research and especially of the new behavioral economics, re-brought the topic onto the surface. In order to better comprehend and to contribute to the recent discussion concerning the relationship between the two disciplines, the study of relevant views found in history of economic thought is necessary. The paper starts with a brief sketch of the history of the relationship between economics and psychology, focusing also to the recent literature which points to a reconsideration of this relationship. After an examination of psychological ideas found in influential pre-marginalist writers, the paper discusses the arguments supporting the case for the interaction between the two fields. It also suggests that the work of Richard Jennings can be seen as the peak of the early interaction between economics and psychology. Finally, it considers the relevance of these arguments for the current debate concerning the relationship between economics and psychology."</span></div>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-71341345350764583642017-06-09T16:33:00.000-03:002017-06-23T17:15:44.352-03:00Artículo: Migrants and the Making of America: The Short and Long Run Effects of Immigration during the Age of Mass Migration<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Nunn,Nathan" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nathan Nunn</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> ; </span><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Qian,%20Nancy" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Nancy Qian</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> y </span><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Sequeira,Sandra" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sandra Sequeira</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> publicaron </span><a href="http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:11899&r=his" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Migrants and the Making of America: The Short and Long Run Effects of Immigration during the Ageof Mass Migration, en su abstract leemos: "</a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">We study the effects of European immigration to the United States during the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1920) on economic prosperity today. We exploit variation in the extent of immigration across counties arising from the interaction of fluctuations in aggregate immigrant flows and the gradual expansion of the railway network across the United States. We find that locations with more historical immigration today have higher incomes, less poverty, less unemployment, higher rates of urbanization, and greater educational attainment. The long-run effects appear to arise from the persistence of sizeable short-run benefits, including greater industrialization, increased agricultural productivity, and more innovation."</span></div>
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Ver enlace al artículo <a href="http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:11899&r=his">acá</a> </div>
</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-69883577029019714562017-06-02T06:45:00.000-03:002017-06-02T06:45:18.033-03:00 Información biográfica sobre historiadores económicosEntre el material disponible mediante el sitio de la EHS, información biográfica, siempre interesante, sobre historiadores económicos (a 2009): <a href="http://www.ehs.org.uk/dotAsset/5507fbdf-e5f4-4bef-8226-8cfd322e0eed.pdf" target="_blank">A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY</a><br />
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Ver enlace <b><a href="http://www.ehs.org.uk/dotAsset/5507fbdf-e5f4-4bef-8226-8cfd322e0eed.pdf" target="_blank">acá</a></b>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-29744591437358129592017-05-26T06:57:00.000-03:002017-05-26T06:57:27.988-03:00Podcasts: Tawney Lectures: 2017: Falling behind and catching up: India’s transition from a colonial economy<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Interesante recurso en el sitio de la <a href="http://www.ehs.org.uk/" target="_blank">Economic History Society</a>: está disponible el podcast de la conferencia 2017: <span style="color: #282828;"><a href="http://www.ehs.org.uk/multimedia/tawney-lecture-2017-falling-behind-and-catching-up-india-s-transition-from-a-colonial-economy" target="_blank">Falling behind and catching up: India’s transition from a colonial economy</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Conferencias de años anteriores, ver <b><a href="http://www.ehs.org.uk/multimedia/podcasts-of-tawney-lectures.html" target="_blank">aquí</a></b></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-48670300874151928182017-05-19T06:47:00.000-03:002017-05-19T06:47:07.668-03:00Artículo: Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Desmet,Klaus" target="_blank">Klaus Desmet</a>,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> </a><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Greif,%20Avner" target="_blank">Avner Greif</a> <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"> y </a><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Parente,Stephen%20L." target="_blank">Stephen L. Parente</a> han publicado <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial
Revolution and the Great Divergence</u> Allí exploran la gran divergencia analizando la difusión tecnológica. En su abstract refieren: "</a>Why do some countries industrialize much earlier
than others? One widely-accepted answer is that markets need to be large enough
for producers to find it profitable to bear the fixed cost of introducing
modern technologies. This insight, however, has limited explanatory power, as
illustrated by England having industrialized nearly two centuries before China.
This paper argues that a market-size-only theory is insufficient because it
ignores that many of the modern technologies associated with the Industrial
Revolution were fiercely resisted by skilled craftsmen who expected a reduction
in earnings. Once we take into account the incentives to resist by factor
suppliers' organizations such as craft guilds, we theoretically show that
industrialization no longer depends on market size, but on the degree of
spatial competition between the guilds' jurisdictions. We substantiate the
relevance of our theory for the timing of industrialization in England and
China (i) by providing historical and empirical evidence on the relation
between spatial competition, craft guilds and innovation, and (ii) by showing
that a model of our theory calibrated to historical data on spatial competition
correctly predicts the timing of industrialization in both countries. The
theory can therefore account for both the Industrial Revolution and the Great
Divergence."</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-20808512015054391772017-05-12T08:40:00.000-03:002017-05-12T08:40:05.143-03:00Artículo: Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development: Evidence from Japan<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=JunichiYamasaki" target="_blank">Junichi Yamasaki</a> publicó <a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="m_-6358094310851688218_p1"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Railroads, Technology Adoption, and Modern Economic Development:
Evidence from Japan.</u> El abstract resume "</a>Railroad access can accelerate the technological
progress in the industrial sector and therefore induce structural change and
urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this
particular mechanism in the context of Japanese railroad network expansion and
modern economic growth in the late 19th century and early 20th centuries. By
digitizing a novel data set that measures the use of steam engines at the
factory level, allowing me to directly observe the diffusion of steam power, I
analyze the effect of railroad access on the adoption of steam power. To
overcome the endogeneity problem, I determine the cost-minimizing path
between destinations, and use this to construct an instrument for railroad
access. I find that railroad access led to an increased adoption of steam power
by factories, which in turn reallocated labor from the agricultural to the
industrial sector, thereby inducing structural change. Railroad network also
broke mean reversion in population growth, eventually leading to urbanization. My results support the view that railroad network construction was key
to the modern economic growth in pre-First World War Japan"</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-83534507930364552932017-05-05T18:02:00.000-03:002017-05-22T18:45:55.016-03:00Artículo: The Role of Structural Transformation in Regional Productivity Growth and Convergence in Japan: 1874 - 2008<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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<a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Paul,Saumik" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Suamik
Paul</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> y </span><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fukao,%20Kyoji" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Kyoji</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Fukao,%20Kyoji" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Fukao</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> publicaron </span><a href="http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hit:hitcei:2016-12&r=his" style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Role of
Structural Transformation in Regional Productivity Growth and Convergence in
Japan: 1874 - 2008,</a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> en cuyo abstract leemos: "Japan’s regional
convergence of productivity levels throughout the 20th century can be best
described as a cumulative process of “catching up, forging ahead, and falling
behind”. Using a novel dataset spanning 135 years (1874 – 2008), this study
finds support for a crucial role played by structural transformation in
convergence. The pace of productivity catch-up and convergence accelerated in
the mid-1950s with the help of structural transformation, particularly in the
period from 1955–1965. Structural transformation explains, on average, about
30% of the aggregate productivity growth, and its effect intensified in
prefectures with faster movements of labor across sectors and larger sectoral
productivity gaps. However, since the early 1970s, its contribution to the
convergence was frequently offset by within-sector productivity growth, in turn
thwarting the pace of convergence. These counter-balancing effects contributed
to the diverse pathways of productivity catch-up at the prefecture level."</span></div>
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1041435984535843361.post-24940029436256274052017-04-28T17:33:00.000-03:002017-05-03T17:56:40.527-03:00Bases de datos: Estadísticas de Brasil<div style="text-align: justify;">
<a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=TenaJunguito,%20Antonio">Anttonio Tena Junguito</a> y <a href="http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search.pf?aus=Absell,%20ChristopherDavid">Christopher David Absell</a> publicaron The Reconstruction of Brazil's Foreign Trade Series, 1821-1913. En el resumen leemos "To date, research on the economic history of Brazil during the nineteenth century has relied on official foreign trade statistics, the accuracy of which has repeatedly been put into question. This paper provides insights into the accuracy of the official series by examining the accuracy of the export and import series for Brazil during the nineteenth century. We re-estimate the official import series using trading partner sources, and find that the official series was marginally under-valued during certain periods of the nineteenth century. Furthermore, we provide new upper- and lower-bound estimates of the export series by testing different assumptions regarding the size of the cif-fob factor adjustments. Finally, we introduce a new import price index for the period 1827-1913."</div>
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