Estimates of historical workers' annual incomes suffer from the fundamental problem that
they are inferred from day wage rates without knowing how many days of work day …

The Industrial Revolution remains a defining moment in the economic history of the modern
world. But what kind and how much of a revolution was it? And what kind of? moment? could …

Estimates are developed of the major macroeconomic aggregates–wages, land rents,
interest rates, prices, factor shares, sectoral shares in output and employment, and real …

Entanglements of Empire explores the political, cultural and economic entanglements and
irrevocable social transformations that resulted from Maori engagements with Protestant …

We provide annual estimates of GDP for England between 1270 and 1700 and for Great
Britain between 1700 and 1870, constructed from the output side. The GDP data are …

The Decline of Life is an ambitious and absorbing study of old age in eighteenth-century
England. Drawing on a wealth of sources-literature, correspondence, poor house and …

It is conventionally assumed that the pre‐modern working year was fixed and that
consumption varied with changes in wages and prices. This is challenged by the twin …

As a result of recent work on historical national accounting, it is now possible to establish
firmly the timing of the Great Divergence of living standards between Europe and Asia …

This article calculates, nationally and by region, real wages for male English farm workers.
Rural living costs are also estimated. Only in the 1820s did real day wages begin to increase …

We hypothesise that cultural appreciation of hard work and thrift, the Protestant ethic
according to Max Weber, had a pre‐Reformation origin: the Catholic Order of Cistercians. In …