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1 paź 2022 · Focusing on England during the period 1600 to 1800, we use detailed historical data on the price and consumption of increasingly affordable colonial goods to estimate welfare gains from their introduction.
4 dni temu · Searchable by keyword and by year of transaction, this database shows George Washington's household accounting records, listing the prices he paid for goods and services from the 1750s-1790s. Source: George Washington Financial Papers Project.
An examination of farm account books in the northern colonies has revealed that local price fluctuations moved in synchronization with prices in the principal port cities, suggesting a high degree of market integration.
Growing markets for textiles and other manufactured goods in Britain, colonial North America and India, as well as West Africa and the rest of the world, provided opportunities to specialize in the production of textiles and other products, in which the British had a comparative advantage.
2 dni temu · Shows wholesale prices for wheat flour, sugar, raw cotton, wool, nails, etc. as well as for cotton sheeting, coal, turpentine, lots of 1,000 bricks and more . Lists prices for every year from 1800-1970. Source: Historical statistics of the U.S., colonial times to 1970, p.209.
4 dni temu · Food, beer, candle and coal prices - London, 1740-1865. Chart shows the prices paid by Greenwich Hospital for meat, bread, flour, cheese, butter, beer, candles and coal in each decade from 1740-1860, and 1865. Also shows average weekly wages for building trade occupations in shillings and pence.
16 gru 2023 · A close study of how the status of trading companies changed after 1688 demonstrates that mercantilist decision-making was a more widespread, more national process than is commonly assumed. English manufacturers and merchants looked to the state to support them in an increasingly global economy.
