Many recent studies show that firms profit from connections to influential politicians, but less
is known about how much politicians financially benefit from wielding political influence. We …

The language of credit and debt is almost ubiquitous in daily life. In advanced modern
societies, financial institutions and other organizations have become increasingly active in …

Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that
characterized the Industrial Revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops …

A key challenge to theories of long-run economic growth has been linking the onset of
modern growth with the move to modern fertility limitation. A notable puzzle for these …

The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England explores the rise of consumerism from
the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of the nineteenth century. The book …

Explanations for the rapid turnover rates of small businesses during the early years of British
industrialisation are usually framed in terms of mismanagement or misfortune. More recently …

The fertility transition in nineteenth century Europe is one of economic history's greatest
puzzles. There is no consensus in the literature on the causes of this 'fertility revolution' …

The records of Hoare's Bank and the correspondence of six of its women customers show
how these women started to use the new banking services both for transferring money and …

It was a commonplace among contemporaries, and remains received wisdom today, that
inventors were poorly remunerated during the industrial revolution. Adapting a dataset of …

Studies of wealth-holding in nineteenth-century Britain focus either on establishing
aggregate measures or on individual case studies. These do not allow for a comparative …