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Consistent with theories about the emergence of different national financial systems, lending by the State Bank of the Russian Empire mattered more in regions with scarce capital and fragmented private markets (M Suesse and T Grigoriadis, December 2025)

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From the 18th century to the early 19th century, the slave trade based in Britain, France, and the Netherlands was not dramatically more profitable than other economic activities. However, there was substantial variance (K Rönnbäck, G Daudin, G de Kok, D Richardson and M Rodrigues, April 2026)

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Comparing wages in the city of Venice and its rural hinterland in the early modern period, plague appears as a major force shaping the integration of rural and urban labor markets (T Buscemi and L Ridolfi, April 2026)

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Wealth confiscation in the Ottoman Empire, known as müsadere, was a procedure typically effected as the consequence of conviction of a crime and overwhelmingly targeted officials and local leaders rather than traders, craftsmen and merchants (Y Arslantaş, May 2019)

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Peter Gordon: David Chaffetz's "Raiders, Rulers, and Traders" highlights the role of horses as traded commodities, decisively shaping the rise and fall of Eurasian empires in the age before the railroad (Asian Review of Books, July 2024)

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u/season-of-light — 9 days ago
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When Egypt defaulted on its foreign debt in 1876, European financial and fiscal supervision weakened the ruling establishment and alarmed many rural taxpaying subjects. This led to a push for parliamentary rule and more secure private property rights (A Hartnett and M Saleh, December 2025)

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During the 1930s, Czechoslovakia's government built more concrete defensive fortifications to ward off invasion. One effect was to give the domestic cement cartel unprecedented influence (T Gecko, January 2026)

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From the late 18th century to the mid 19th century, brewers in the German speaking states of Europe stood out for their use of modern science in production processes. With business partnerships straddling many states, they spread modern technology across the region (P Šimková, April 2024)

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The Cold War limited cross-border book translations. After its end, translations of Western publications in the East exploded but translations from the East to the West did not (R Abramitzky and I Sin, December 2014)

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Muthoni Kihara: Devin Smart's new book on origins of Mombasa food culture highlights the role of economic forces in Kenya's recent past, namely increased migration, the reduced influence of seasonality, and the persistence of underemployment (March 2026)

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u/season-of-light — 21 days ago
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The proportion of students at prestigious American universities who did not grow up wealthy remained consistently low over the 20th century. Neither the GI Bill nor the implementation of standardized testing changed this (R Abramitzky, J Kowalski, S Pérez and J Price, November 2024)

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