The Rise of the European Economy: An Economic History of Continental Europe from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century

1977 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Carla Rahn Phillip ◽  
Hermann Kellenbenz ◽  
Gerhard Benecke
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
History Of

An Economic History of Scotland in the Eighteenth Century

1964 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 471
Author(s):  
Jacob M. Price ◽  
Henry Hamilton ◽  
T. C. Smout
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Economic History ◽  
History Of

The 1738–41 Harvest Crisis in Scotland

2011 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philipp Robinson Rössner
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Aggregate Demand ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Industrial Output ◽  
Industrial Economy ◽  
History Of

Between 1738 and 1741 Scotland experienced one of the harshest harvest crises and depressions in the eighteenth-century. After at least two consecutive harvest failures (in 1739 and 1740 and perhaps also in 1738) agrarian and industrial output contracted, the price level doubled, and average incomes fell below subsistence. Due to an increase in mortality, there was also a considerable contraction in aggregate demand. Data drawn from both the micro- as well as the macro-level shows the disastrous economic impact such deficient harvests – the depression's initial trigger – would have upon Scotland, a pre-industrial economy dominated by agriculture. Such shocks in agrarian supply tended to work out as general adverse shocks in aggregate supply, as the economy's business cycle was to a large extent determined by movements in the harvest cycle. The implicit task of the paper also is to point out the variety of available sources for, as well as one possible strategy of, writing a quantitative macro-economic history of eighteenth-century Scotland.

scholarly journals Irish Maritime Trade in the Eighteenth Century:  a Study in Patterns of Trade, Market Structures, and Merchant Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Karen A Cheer
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Market Structures ◽  
Trading Partners ◽  
Atlantic Rim ◽  
History Of ◽  
Using Data

<p>Ireland has a centuries-long history of maritime and economic interaction with Great Britain and other more distant communities on the Atlantic rim. In the last forty years of academic writing on the main themes of Ireland's economic history, very few historians have examined the  late-eighteenth century maritime trade data. The original Customs logs or port books are lost but other sources of information remain. This thesis uses a new source of information, Richard Eaton's A Daily and Alphabetical Arrangement of all Imports and Exports at the Port of Dublin, in the Quarter ending the 25th March, 1785, as well as the shipping reports contained in the daily newspapers of the time to create a micro-history of the maritime and mercantile interaction between Ireland and her trading partners. Eaton's "List" not only gives us a complete tally of the goods exported from, and imported into Dublin in the first three months of 1785 but the customs official also recorded the names of each merchant or firm operating in Dublin at that time. This is the first time that such detailed information has been available to scholars and it is unavailable from any other source. The focus is on Dublin in 1785 and a comparison is made with another Irish port city -- Belfast. Change over time is measured by using data for the same focal cities in 1770. Ireland's key market is England and Liverpool is the increasingly popular destination for goods leaving Dublin and the port of lading for goods arriving in Dublin. Using the databases created for the purpose, this thesis analyses the relationship between Dublin/Belfast and Liverpool and discusses the patterns of trade and market structures. Although every export/import sector had a group of leading merchants, no single merchant or small group of merchants were able to wield sufficient market power to exclude competitors. All sectors of the merchant communities of Dublin, Belfast and Liverpool -- regardless of whether they dealt in primary produce, linen products or merchants' goods -- were general merchants, with little evidence of specialisation.</p>

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