RECENT WORKING PAPERS By JOHN MUNRO:
All of the following working-papers are presented in pdf format only;
and in this format, they may be downloaded, saved to disk, and/or printed out.
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Archive users may download papers and produce them for their own personal use; but downloading of
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Note: many, if not all, of the following working papers have now been
published.
Please consult my List of Publications
before citing these working papers, which remain permanently part of the department's Working Papers archive, as indicated
above.
Chronological List of WORKING PAPERS (from 1998):
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(1) The Maze of Medieval Mint Metrology in Flanders, France and England:
Determining the Weight of the Marc de Troyes and the Tower Pound from the Economics of Counterfeiting. [1998-01]
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(2) The 'Industrial Crisis' of the English Textile Towns,
1290 - 1330. [1998-02]
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(3) The Symbiosis of Towns and Textiles:
Urban Institutions and the Changing Fortunes of Cloth Manufacturing in the Low Countries and England, 1280 - 1570.
[1998 - 03]
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(4) Textiles as Articles of Consumption in Flemish Towns,
1330 - 1575. [1998 - 04]
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(5) Monetary Policies, Guild-Strife,
and Compulsory Arbitration during the Decline of the Late-Medieval Flemish Cloth Industry, 1390-1435. [1998 - 05]
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(6) English 'Backwardness' and Financial Innovations in
Commerce with the Low Countries, 14th to 16th Centuries. [1998 - 06]
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(7) The Low Countries' Export Trade in Textiles with
the Mediterranean Basin, 1200-1600: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Comparative Advantages in Overland
and Maritime Trade Routes. [1999 - 01]
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(8) The Monetary Origins of the 'Price Revolution': the South-German
Silver Mining Boom, Merchant Banking, and Venetian Commerce, 1470-1540. [1999 - 02]
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(9) The 'New Institutional Economics' and the Changing
Fortunes of Fairs in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe: Warfare, Transaction Costs, and the Textile Trades.
[2000 - 01]
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(10) Flemish Woollens and German Commerce during the
Later Middle Ages: Changing Trends in Cloth Prices and Markets, 1290 -1550. [2000 - 02]
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(11) Wage Stickiness, Monetary Changes, and Real Incomes in
Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries, 1300 - 1470: Did Money Really Matter? [2000 - 03]
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Figures 1 - 34: Wage Stickiness, Monetary Changes, and Real Incomes
in Late-Medieval England and the Low Countries. [2000 - 03]
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(12) Wool and Wool-Based Textiles in the West European Economy,
c.800 - 1500: Innovations and Traditions in Textile Products, Technology, and Industrial Organisation.
[2000 - 04]
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(13) The West European Woollen Industries and their
Struggles for International Markets, c.1000 - 1500. [2000 - 05]
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(14) Money, Wages, and Real Incomes
in the Age of Erasmus: The Purchasing Power of Coins and of Building Craftsmen's Wages in England and the Low
Countries, 1500 - 1540. [2001 - 01]
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(15)
The Late Medieval Origins of the Modern Financial Revolution: Overcoming Impediments from Church and State. [2001 - 02]
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(16)
Industrial Energy from Water-Mills in the European Economy, Fifth to Eighteenth Centuries: the Limitations of Power
[2002 - 01]
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(17)
Prices, Wages, and Prospects for 'Profit Inflation' in England, Brabant, and Spain, 1501 -1670: A Comparative Analysis
[2002 - 02]
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(18)
Industrial Change in the Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Low Countries: the Arrival of Spanish Merino Wools and the Expansion of the 'Nouvelles Draperies'
[2002 - 03]
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(19)
Postan, Population, and Prices in Late-Medieval England and Flanders . [2002 - 04] Includes a pdf file with graphs.
Also available in MS Word .
- (19: graphs) Monetary and Price Graphs (contained in an MS-Word file)
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(20)
Gold, Guilds, and Government: The Impact of Monetary and Labour Policies on the Flemish
Cloth Industry, 1390-1435 [2002 - 05]
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(21)
Builders’ Wages in Southern England and the Southern Low Countries, 1346-1500:
A Comparative Study of Trends in and Levels of Real Incomes. [2004 - 01]
Note: this posted working paper contains two sets of graphs (in colour), contained in two separate pdf files.
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