cam a22 2 4500 555293912 CHVBK 20201009215616.0 cr nn|008mamaa 190131s2018 xx ||||-s---- 0 0|eng-d 978-3-319-96962-6 ebook 10.1007/978-3-319-96962-6 doi (OCoLC)1085387674 (IDSSG)001032372 Springer ger SzZuIDS HSG HC 330.9 23 DEAGI352B168E2E669E7DC1258396005E48CB iCapture Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages The Unreliable Data, Sources and Methods that have been used for Measuring Standards of Living in the Past edited by John Hatcher, Judy Z. Stephenson Cham Springer International Publishing 2018 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 318 S. 32 illus.) Text txt rdacontent/ger Computermedien c rdamedia/ger Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier/ger text file PDF rda Palgrave Studies in Economic History The quality of life experienced by people in the past is one of the most important areas of historical enquiry, and the standard of living of populations is one of the leading measures of the economic performance of nations. Yet how accurate is the information on which these judgments are based? This collection of essays, written by renowned scholars in the fields of labour, wage and welfare history, cogently undermine the validity of the data that have for decades dominated the measurement of these phenomena in Britain, Europe and Asia, and provided the statistical backbone for countless descriptions and analyses of economic development, welfare and many other prime subjects in economic and social history. The contributors to this volume rigorously expose misapprehensions of long-run macroeconomic estimates of the real wage and provide a host of improved methods and data for revising and rejecting them. This volume is essential reading for anyone interested in economic and social history, economics and the application of statistical methods to historical evidence. John Hatcher is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is renowned for his wide ranging work on the economic, social and demographic history of England from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. He has also published a book about the experiences of the ordinary individuals who lived and died in the Black Death, which combines history with fiction. Judy Stephenson is a postdoctoral fellow in Economic History at Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK. She researches and publishes work on early modern employment, work and labour markets. She published her first book Contracts and Pay: Work in London Construction 1660-1785 with Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. Economic history Social history Labor economics Economic theory Hatcher John Herausgeber edt http://id edt Stephenson Judy Z. Herausgeber edt http://id edt Printed edition 9783319969633 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96962-6 Full text for the University of St. Gallen BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 noalma ids I IDSSG HSG HSG ONL HONL001032372 IDSSG 490 1- Palgrave Studies in Economic History IDSSG 700 1- Hatcher John Herausgeber edt http://id edt IDSSG 700 1- Stephenson Judy Z. Herausgeber edt http://id edt IDSSG 776 08 Printed edition 9783319969633 IDSSG 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96962-6 Full text for the University of St. Gallen SWISSBIB 555293912