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Inequality and Housing
This chapter discusses recent developments in theory and research on housing and inequality. Housing-related inequalities have become a topic of...
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Political economy of law, efficiency and adverse ‘inclusion’: rethinking land acquisition in India
With the escalated rate of land acquisition in India to produce viable development projects and essential infrastructure for ‘public purpose’, there...
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Political Economy
This chapter surveys research on political economy in economic history. It discusses the integration of the public choice/political economy...
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‘Getting to Denmark’: the role of agricultural elites for development
We explore the role of elites for development and the spread of industrialized dairying in Denmark in the 1880s. We demonstrate that the location of...
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The Stage of Liberalism
The stage of liberalism extends approximately from 1775 to 1875, but it reaches its fullest and most typical expression in England between 1850 and...
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Affordability Governance in Vienna and Milan
This chapter discusses the case studies of Vienna and Milan, reported respectively in the previous Chaps. 4 and 5. This chapter specifies the answer...
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Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: The Crisis Before the Crisis or, Again, the Transition from the Ancient System to Feudalism
This article aims to provide an interpretation of the crises and changes produced in the West between the end of the Roman EmpireRoman empire and the...
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Staying or Leaving: A Female Seasonal Labour Market in Early Modern Spain (1640–1690)
This study seeks to analyse the factors that determined women’s intense participation in seasonal (harvesting) migration in the Mediterranean region,...
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Price Controls
We have seen in Chap. 7 what happens if the actual market price departs from the market clearing price...
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Introduction: Economic Performance and Background of the Mao Era
What macroeconomic changes and achievements have the Chinese economy undergone during the Mao era? We first summarize the economic achievements and...
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Socio-economic geography and the land rights of indigenous peoples in Paraguay
The article investigates the long-term tendencies of Paraguayan political-economy, in particular the mounting impacts of export-oriented agribusiness...
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The Central Luzon Loop Survey: Rice Farming in the Philippines from 1966 to 2021
The Central Luzon Loop Survey in the Philippines is one of the longest-running and ongoing household-level farm surveys in tropical Asia. This...
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Internal Reverse Migration in India Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: Linking up Human Capital with Natural Capital
In India, the nationwide lockdown imposed in retort to the COVID-19 pandemic has been recognized as a successful preventive tactic. However, a...
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“Revolution”
What is a revolutionRevolution, anyway? MaoMao, Z. famously said that it was “not a dinner party”, or any other refined and peaceable activity, but...
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Inequality and Inefficiency
In this chapter, we consider several reasons why inequality can have serious inefficiency consequences even from the narrow point of view of...
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Islamic Political Capitalism and Economics of Predation
In this chapter, the Islamic political capitalism will be summed up as an economic system based on three fundamental institutions: (1) Velayat faqih...
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The ‘Many Faces’ of the Roman Economy: Modern Preconceptions and Some Considerations on Capital, Technology, and Labour
The chapter discusses how some preconceived ideas stemming from later historical phenomena have informed the modern interpretation of Roman society...