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The economics of providence: an introduction to the economic history of religious orders and congregations, 1773-1930 Flanders Heritage
Ancient economic history and social scientific theory Ghent University
A funny thing happened on my way to the market: reading Petronius to write economic history Ghent University
Petronius' novel is an important rate source for Roman social and economic history. However, it is also a extremely difficult source to interpret. This chapter introduces the reader to some of the possibilities and difficulties involved in using the Satyrica.
The Economic Theology of Neoliberalism: Foucault and Agamben on the History of Governmentality KU Leuven
Foucault's lectures on the emergence of neoliberal governmentality have been an influential source on the study of neoliberalism today. I argue that Foucault's approaches, however, also possesses some limits. It does not address why governmental rationalities display historical continuities, the mutual affinity between neoliberalism and Christian forms of thought, and how neoliberal regimes exclude surplus populations. I turn to Agamben's ...
Factors determining authors’ willingness to wait for editorial decisions from economic history journals KU Leuven
© 2014, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary. In this contribution, we measure how long researchers are willing to wait (WTW) for an editorial decision on the acceptance or rejection of a submitted manuscript. This measure serves as a proxy for the expected value of a publication to a researcher in the field of economic, business and financial history. We analyze how this WTW measure varies with the characteristics of the submitting authors ...
A Brief Economic History of Beer KU Leuven
© Oxford University Press, 2011. All rights reserved. This chapter presents a brief economy history of the evolution of beer production and consumption and the industrial organization of breweries. It discusses first the discovery and use of beer in ancient history, and the functioning of monasteries as centres of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. It then presents an analysis of the innovation and taxation in brewing in the Middle Ages ...