1st Edition

Large Databases in Economic History Research Methods and Case Studies

Edited By Mark Casson, Nigar Hashimzade Copyright 2013
296 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

‘Big data’ is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different data sets, and the publication of databases on the internet. Key economic indicators, such as the consumer price index, can be tracked over long periods, and qualitative information, such as land use, can be converted to a quantitative form. In order... Read more

1. Introduction: Research methods for large databases Mark Casson and Nigar Hashimzade  2. Long-run Price Dynamics: The measurement of substitutability between commodities Mark Casson, Nigar Hashimzade and Catherine Casson  3. The Quantity Theory of Money in Historical Perspective Nick Mayhew  4. Medieval Foreign Exchange: A time series analysis Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks and Tony K. Moore  5. Local Property Values in Fourteenth and Fifteenth-century England Margaret Yates, Anna Campbell and Mark Casson  6. Visual Analytics for Large-scale Actor Networks, with an Application to Liverpool Business Networks John Haggerty and Sheryllynne Haggerty  7. Railways and Local Population Growth: Northamptonshire and Rutland, 1801-91 Mark Casson, Leigh Shaw-Taylor, A.E.M. Satchell and E.A. Wrigley  8. Women’s Land Ownership in Nineteenth-century England Janet Casson  9. The Diffusion of Steam Technology in England: Ploughing engines, 1860-1930 Jane McCutchan  10. Industrious Burglars: Funding consumption from property crime Jane Humphries, Sara Horrell and Ken Sneath

Biography

Mark Casson is Professor of Economics at the University of Reading, UK. His research focuses on economic history, business history and econometrics.

Nigar Hashimzade is Professor of Economics at the University of Durham, UK. Her research focuses on time series econometrics and public economics.

'This book makes applied econometric methods accessible to anyone interested in quantitative economic history'Helen Paul, University of Southampton, UK.