British Economists on Competition Policy (1890-1920)

Labor Productivity in the Railways, 1890-1920

Why do nations fail? Wolcott and Clark [2009] offer a perspective on economic growth through a comparison of the cotton textile industries in India and Japan in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Textile mills in the two nations had comparable outputs as of 1890. In the ensuing fifty years, output per worker hour quintupled in Japan but did not increase much in India. These tren...

The Europeanization of British Competition Policy

Introduction Competition policy presents an interesting case of Europeanization, given that the two classic channels which promote the convergence of national regulations in the EU (that is, negative, market-related regulatory competition on the one hand, and positive, state-led harmonization on the other) does not apply to this policy domain (van Waarden and Drahos, 2002: 913). In terms of pos...

The Europeanisation of British Competition Policy

پان‌ترکیسم: برساختن هویت و شکل‌گیری جمهوری آذربایجان (1890 تا 1920)

شکل‌گیری جمهوری دمکراتیک آذربایجان (1918 تا 1921) در دوران اوج‌گیری جنبش‌های ملی‌گرایانه در مناطق مختلف جهان صورت گرفت. قفقاز از مناطقی بود که از موج دولت-ملت‌سازی بعد از جنگ اول جهانی تأثیر زیادی پذیرفت و دولت‌های مستقل از دل آن سر بر آوردند. گزینش نام «آذربایجان» برای منطقه‌ای که تا قبل از آن «اران» نامیده می‌شد، برای ایرانیان اقدامی در راستای زمینه‌سازی برای جداسازی مناطق ترک‌نشین ایران و تح...

[Physicians and pharmacists in Uberabinha (1890-1920): conflicts and disputes].

Some results are presented of a study into the medical and pharmacological practices in São Pedro de Uberabinha, Minas Gerais state, (today Uberlândia), between the 1890s and the 1920s. The basic hypothesis is that during the period in question, there existed a health service market that was marked and to some extent constituted by conflicts and disputes headed by physicians and pharmacists. Ba...