Since man first forged metal tools and started farming for his food, thus emerging from the
stone age, no event in human history has had a greater impact than the Industrial Revolution …

One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can
we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a …

The rise of the West is often attributed the presence of certain features in Western countries
from the 16th century that were absent in more traditional societies: the abolition of serfdom …

The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history
since the Industrial Revolution. Mainstream economics, especially the institutional theory of …

This paper offers new quantitative evidence on living standards in Bourbon America through
a pioneering study of both wages and heights. Wages were not low, nor were heights short …

Historians have predominantly examined the phenomenon of time through a qualitative
lens. Historians typically regard the measurement of time utilisation and scarcity as more …

Not only the colonial period, but also the pre-colonial times might have influenced later
development patterns. In this study we assess a potential “pre-colonial legacy” hypothesis …

En este artículo se presentan nuevos cálculos sobre la evolución de precios y niveles de
vida en Sevilla entre 1521 y 1603. Partiendo de material empírico inédito y del estudio de …

Since the spread of industrialization, which began in England in the second half of the
eighteenth century, many countries took off on a development path leading to modern …

The rise of China is no doubt the most important event in world economic history since the
Industrial Revolution. The institutional theory of development based on a dichotomy of …