In the early modern period, the world economy gravitated around the expansion of long-
distance commerce. Together with navigation improvements, silver was the prime …

In the early modern period the world economy gravitated around the expansion of long
distance commerce. Together with navigation improvements silver was the prime commodity …

The quest for precious metals and trade routes during the early modern period
fundamentally changed the world. What was the global impact of the large deposits of silver …

From 1777 to 1812, slave ships carried nearly 70,000 captives to the Río de la Plata;
however, the main slave routes leading to Buenos Aires and Montevideo did not depart from …

This article is a survey and critique of recent endeavours to establish statistical foundations
for a chronology for the great divergence based upon trends and levels in relative wages …

DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES Page 1 DISCUSSION PAPER SERIES DP15299
MONETARY CAPACITY Roberto Bonfatti, Adam Brzezinski, Kivanç Karaman and Nuno …

Monetary historians explain the stream of silver flowing towards Asia as the result of a
difference in gold-to-silver ratios within Eurasia. 3 For reasons not yet explored, unlike …

From its rise in the 1830s to its pinnacle in the 1930s, the opium trade was a guiding force in
the Chinese political economy. Opium money was inextricably bound up in local, national …

Price Theory of Monies labels differ fundamentally. The Price Theory of Monies recognizes
tangibility of each fiat money. Aggregation across distinct commodity monies is one problem …

Because of the scarcity of data, there are few quantitative analyses dealing with clandestine
markets, despite their prime importance during wartime. This article exploits a unique …