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The book has stimulated a major debate amongst economic historians and much progress has recently been made in cross-cultural comparison of real wages. ... This lecture series examines those issues of the Great Divergence on the empirical basis of what

2022. Profitability of small and medium-sized enterprises in Marshall's time: sector and spatial heterogeneity in the nineteenth century, Cambridge Journal of Economics,. ... Economic History Review: a journal of economic and social history. Bennett, R.J.

1982-2009: Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University. 1993-1994: Visiting research associate, ESRC Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure. ... Research Associate of the Global COE Research Unit for Statistical

Generously supported by the George Macaulay Trevelyan and Ellen McArthur Funds, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, the Economic History Society and the Centre for History and Economics. ... In particular, he has emphasised the wider economic,

His publications for this project include an analysis of servants in large households in rural England in the 18th and 19th centuries, which appeared in the Economic History Review in 2013,

A new economic history of the pre-steam transport revolution in England and Wales.'. ... Transport planning. Modelling transport change and its effects on trade costs and economic geography.

Other work. Davenport, R.J., Boulton, J., & Schwarz, L., 2016. 'Urban inoculation and the decline of mortality in eighteenth century cities – a reply to Razzell', Economic History Review, 69, 188-214. ... Davenport, R.J., Boulton, J., & Schwarz, L.,

Once the occupational datasets have been assembled and economic development broadly documented we will be able to turn attention to questions of causation. ... These include:. What was the role of the state? We will be able to look not just, at the

Carmen Sarasua, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The standard interpretation of modern economic growth, based on the concept of structural change in GDP and employment (Kuznets), argue that population occupied in

The paper shows that most of rise in the relative importance of secondary sector employment, associated with British industrialisation, took place before the onset of continuous technological change and modern economic