Working papers 2010

N°149 Economic Effects of Vertical Disintegration: The American Motion Picture Industry,1945 to 1955
Gregory Mead Silver
N°148 Labour Market Dynamics in Canada, 1891-1911: A First Look From New Census Samples
Kris Inwood, Mary MacKinnon, and Chris Minns
N°147 The Cost of Living in London, 1740-1834
Ralph Turvey
N°146 The Utility of a Common Coinage: Currency Unions and the Integration of Money Markets in Late Medieval Central Europe
Lars Boerner & Oliver Volckart
N°145 'Deep' Integration of 19 th Century Grain Markets: Coordination and Standardisation in a Global Value Chain
Aashish Velkar
N°144 Books or Bullion? Printing, Mining and Financial Integration in Central Europe from the 1460s
David Chilosi and Oliver Volckart
N°143 Exotic Drugs and English Medicine: England's Drug Trade, c.1550-c.1800
Patrick Wallis
N°142 Rethinking the Origins of British India: State Formation and Military-Fiscal Undertakings in an Eighteenth Century World Region
Tirthankar Roy
N°141 Becoming a London Goldsmith in the Seventeenth Century: Social Capital and Mobility of Apprentices and Masters of the Guild
Raphaelle Schwarzberg
N°140 Good or Bad Money? Debasement, Society and the State in the Late Middle Ages
David Chilosi and Oliver Volckart
N°139 The Amazing Synchronicity of the Global Development (the 1300s-1450s). An Institutional Approach to the Globalization Of the Late Middle Ages
Lucy Badalian and Victor Krivorotov
N°138 Re-evaluating the Role of Voluntary Organisations: Merchant Networks, the Baltic and the Expansion of European Long-Distance Trade
Esther Sahle
N°137 Were British Railway Companies Well-Managed in the Early Twentieth Century?
Nicholas Crafts, Timothy Leunig and Abay Mulatu
This is a revised version of a previous working paper which incorporates corrections to errors in estimates of TFP growth (published as No 10 in the Large Scale Technological Change series (June 2007), original paper can be found here: LSTC
N°136 Pirates, Polities and Companies: Global Politics on the Konkan Littoral, c.1690-1756
Derek L. Elliott
N°135 From Sickness to Death: The Financial Viability of the English Friendly Societies and Coming of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1875-1908
Nicholas Broten
N°134 Total Factor Productivity for the Royal Navy from Victory at Texal (1653) to Triumph at Trafalgar (1805)
Patrick Karl O'Brien and Xavier Duran