ISSN:0307-3378    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1991.tb00482.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTThe 1804 report of the Select Committee on the Irish Currency remains a somewhat neglected classic in the history of economics. Its forceful statement of the classical monetary approach towards exchange rate determination and the balance of payments anticipates the main findings of the more famous Bullion Report of 1810. This paper reassesses the empirical underpinnings of the Report and associated literature.Your Committee must refer to the confirmation and sanction which all their reasonings receive from the labours of the Committee…appointed…to examine into the causes of the great depreciation of the Irish exchange with England in 1804. [The Bullion Report, 1

ISSN:0307-3378    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1991.tb00483.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTCurrently available price series for slaves during the eighteenth century need to be treated with much caution, and it seems unlikely that large quantities of new evidence will be unearthed. Further progress toward the creation of more reliable price series will thus require new methods of estimation. In this paper, a new price series for slaves at the African coast is calculated using data relating to the number of slaves shipped from the coast by British traders and the value of trade goods bartered for them.

ISSN:0307-3378    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1991.tb00484.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTOne of the phenomena that accompanied the advance of the French Revolution and its armies throughout the European Continent in the 1790s was the flight of capital. Merchants and guild artisans, as well as aristocrats, had to turn to merchant bankers and use the existing international capital markets to remove the liquid part of their property beyond the reach of Revolutionary arms. There is good reason to believe that they were successful to a much greater degree than previously suspected, largely because the international capital markets of the time were larger and better organized than previously thought. Moreover, these capital movements from the Continent to Britain explain succinctly why the British Industrial Revolution took place during this period despite the large pressures of war expenditures and British government subsidies to Continental allies taking place at the same time. The repatriation of capital to the Continent from England after peace also helps explain the depression of British industry and incomes from 1815 through the financial crisis of 1825, although the role of British speculators was important too.

ISSN:0307-3378    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1991.tb00485.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY

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ABSTRACTInternational trade and economic growth have been considered intimately linked in nineteenth century Britain. Conventional estimates of Britain's gross national product, however, fail to account for changes in the terms of trade and may be misleading indicators of changes in real income. Revised figures that incorporate terms of trade changes are presented here. One finding is that conventional estimates of GNP overstate growth in real income early in the century when the terms of trade deteriorated.

ISSN:0307-3378    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8586.1991.tb00486.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1991

数据来源: WILEY