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Chapter Bookkeeping as a ‘key technology’ of pre-modern commerce. Its relevance for the eco-nomic development in Europe
(2023)
It is the aim of this paper to analyse the importance of (double-entry) bookkeeping for the economic development in Europe and its possible indirect influence on economic growth. Being one of the most important commercial ...
Chapter Management and governance of the kingdom’s finances. Financial literacy as useful knowledge in late-medieval Aragon (1365-1515)
(2023)
This paper’s primary research question is to what extent change in mechanisms and instruments of financial management proceeding from trading knowledge improved the efficiency of late-medieval poli-ties. To do so, we have ...
Chapter The origins of the putting-out or domestic system of industrial production in England
(2023)
The putting-out system of production was a key feature of England’s woollen cloth industry and is regarded by many historians as a step along the road to capitalism. This paper considers the evolution of the industry in ...
Chapter The origins of the putting-out or domestic system of industrial production in England
(2023)
The putting-out system of production was a key feature of England’s woollen cloth industry and is regarded by many historians as a step along the road to capitalism. This paper considers the evolution of the industry in ...
Chapter Transferring useful knowledge. Quality mechanisms in European apprenticeship
(2023)
Human capital is central to current debates about the sources of growth and divergence in the premodern economy. Apprenticeship, the key formal arrangement by which occupational skills were transferred in this period, has ...
Chapter Tally sticks as media of knowledge in the contexts of medieval economic and administrative histor
(2023)
Tally sticks worked as ubiquitous stores of numerical knowledge and tools of accounting and administration in medieval Europe. Previous research emphasized both the potential and value of the wooden notched sticks not only ...
Chapter Transmission of useful knowledge in texts written by craftsmen. Two case studies from the Holy Roman Empire
(2023)
In medieval and early modern crafts, useful knowledge was taught in the workshops. There, innovation took place. Craftsmen exchanged knowledge on journeys or through voluntary and forced migration. This system of knowledge ...
Chapter Round Table comment: From «useful knowledge» to a «culture of growth»
(2023)
we can state that economically useful knowledge could induce innovations which further deepened and widened this economically useful knowledge; and this cycle was at least one of the decisive factors of raising profitability ...
Chapter Le radici storiche dell’economia della conoscenza
(2023)
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Chapter Ships, shipping, technological change and global economic growth, 1400-1800
(2023)
The major breakthrough in ship design around 1400 creating the full-rigged ship constituted a general purpose technology. It had far-reaching effects on shipping, trade volume, orientation of trade routes, location of ...