Tahun Terbit

2015

Deskripsi Fisik

131 hlm.

The relationship between democracy, inequality, and redistribution has inspired extensive research, but consensus is still elusive. In order to contribute to this discussion, the author analyzes the Spanish case, where transition to democracy was accompanied by a comprehensive tax reform, aiming at increasing progressivity and revenue. But how effectively did it change the distribution of the …

The study produces new data on the long-term development of vegetable foodstuff output and average labor productivity in Saxon agriculture c. 1660�1850. This territory saw an early development of a large, but spatially dispersed industrial sector and an agrarian reform in 1832. We establish, first, that food demand from the labor force of the non-agricultural sectors promoted agricultural …

Wooden shipbuilding represented a very important economic activity in Greece during the nineteenth century, and it was strictly related to the growth of the Greek-owned merchant marine. Particularly in Hermoupolis of Syros, a major commercial and shipping center of the same period, wooden shipbuilding experienced unprecedented rates of growth, helping it to become one of the major shipbuilding …

The article challenges the hypothesis that the Great Deflation was an inevitable outcome of the resumption of gold convertibility at prewar parities.Thealternative that the relative prices of gold tended to gravitate one to another is derived from the conventional gold standard model and Cassel�s insights into purchasing power of currency. It is demonstrated that (1) although the relative …

INDAH BUDININGTYAH. NIM: 1101135010. Pengaruh Pendekatan Scaffolding Melalui Metode Problem Posing Within Solution Posing Terhadap Hasil Belajar Fisika.Skripsi. Program Studi Pendidikan Fisika, Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Jakarta: Universitas Muhammadiyah Prof. DR. HAMKA, 2015. Penelitiaan ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui adak tidaknya pengaruh penggunaan pendekatan Scafolding melalui…

The European Economic Community�s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has found a lot of scholarly attention. While economists stress the irrationality of the CAP and explain its striking persistence by rent-seeking behavior, a prominent interpretation among historians is that the CAP should be interpreted as welfare policy for farm households. I subject the latter hypothesis for the period …

We create new datasets on capital flows and bank balance sheets to document how the Spanish crisis of the mid-1860s fits the main characteristics of a twin crisis. Next,we describe the particular banking system of Spain, characterized by the coexistence of the Bank of Spain with multiple local banks of issue and a number of joint-stock banks (sociedades de cre�dito).We analyze the microeco…

This article presents a benchmark for Portuguese agrarian output for the 1311�20 decade. This benchmark is built from the supply side using the value of church tithes combined with contemporary parish accounts. Two main findings emerge: first, per capita agrarian output was similar in the recently conquered South and the North, hinting that internal migration after the Reconquista led to t…

This article tests for wage discrimination inUSmanufacturing during the nineteenth century and in 2002 by estimating the female-to-male productivity ratio and comparing it to the wage ratio. This method will not identify all forms of discrimination, but will determine whether women were paid wages commensurate with their productivity. There was no significant difference between the wage ratio …