Browsing by Subject "Economic history"

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    • A plea for trade theory in economic history 

      Findlay, Ronald (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      This paper discusses the applicability of the small-scale general equilibrium models of trade theory to the problems of economic history. The examples are drawn from the experience of the Atlantic economy from its emergence ...

    • Address at the opening of the thirtieth session 

      Pim, Jonathan (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1876)
      The honour you have done me in electing me as your president, brings with it the responsibility of addressing you on the occasion of this, the opening meeting of the thirtieth session of the Statistical Society. Having ...

    • Adjusting from war to peace in 1940s Britain 

      Crafts, N. F. R. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      Most assessments of British economic policy in the transition from war to peace after 1945 praise the strategy adopted. This paper draws on recent growth theory and analysis of eastern European liberalisation to argue ...

    • An expenditure estimate of Irish national income in 1907 

      Bielenberg, Andy; O'Mahony, Patrick (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1998)
      In order to compare Ireland's GDP per capita to other countries in the early twentieth century, a new expenditure based estimate for 1907 is presented in this article. Since it broadly adopts Feinstein's method for ...

    • Andrew B. Liu: Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute of Columbia University.) xi, 360 pp. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. $50. ISBN 978 0 30024373 4. 

      Hill, Nathan (2023)

    • Celtic migrations 

      Heron, Denis Caulfield (Dublin Statistical Society, 1853)
      In that remote age of which no personal records remain, but whose history may be derived from the known dispersion of races and languages ? as the geologist, from fragments of rock, traces the events of the primeval ...

    • Economic geography and the long-run effects of the Great Irish Famine 

      Whelan, Karl (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1999)
      One of the most important debates in Irish economic history has concerned the long-run effects of the Great Irish Famine, with some arguing that it had only temporary effects on the economy and others seeing it as a major ...

    • European Marine Fish Market Dynamics, 1500 to 1800 CE 

      Matthews, John Alphonsus (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)
      European population more than doubled during the early modern period between 1500 and 1790. A priori, the demographic rise depended on increased food supplies, but to what extent was food security dependable, and what were ...

    • The History of Ireland's Marine Fisheries, 1500 to 1603 

      Hayes, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)
      This thesis illuminates the history of Irish fisheries from 1500 to 1603 by utilising a range of digital research methods. Previous monographs on the history of Irish fisheries have been unfocused and anecdotal. In contrast, ...

    • ?Insufficient for the support of a family?: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine 

      McGregor, Pat (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2004)
      This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase ...

    • R. C. Geary and the ESRI 

      Kennedy, Kieran A.; Geary, R. C. (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1993)
      R .C. Geary's association with The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) was a long and fruitful one. He was the first Director of the Institute which began in 1960 as The Economic Research Institute (ERI), but by ...

    • Rich trades, scarce capabilities: industrial development revisited 

      Sutton, John (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 2002)
      In the last decade of the sixteenth century, the Dutch republic underwent a dramatic economic transformation that laid the foundation of the country?s Golden Age. At the heart of this process was the rise of the ?rich ...

    • The study of Irish economic history 

      Chart, D.A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1919)
      The subject of this evening's paper is not one which has frequently attracted the attention of members of this society. This is regrettable in many ways. Often a proper treatment of disease is impossible without an ...

    • The Great Famine: a simple general equilibrium model 

      McGregor, Pat (Economic & Social StudiesDublin, 1995)
      A general equilibrium model of a poor peasant economy is developed in this paper, one where subsistence is the major concern of many and the absence of a capital market leads to the production possibilities of each agent ...

    • Trinity Week Academic Symposium - Origins, mission and significance 

      Daly, Mary E. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 2007)
      This symposium celebrates the launch of a dedicated website of the proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, and its direct ancestor the Dublin Statistical Society. The Dublin Statistical Society ...