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Why publish Open Access? Humanities researchers share their stories

Why publish an Open Access humanities book? We asked the authors of our most-read OA research for their view. ....

Nairobi Area , Lewis Wade , Mario Schmidt , Hannah Piercy , Ruth Hemstad , Boydell Brewer , Maria Fusaro , European Research Avetransrisk , Swiss National Science Foundation , Research Council Of Norway , European Research Council , Brewer Open Access , Open Access , Research Council , Literary Citizenship , Long Eighteenth , Medieval English , Jane Whittle , Labour Laws , Preindustrial Europe , European Research Council Funded Avetransrisk , Old Regime , Brewer Open ,

At Work in the Ruins: Review

And what I take from this is that we don’t get to choose whether or not there is an ending. We only get to choose what kind of ending we have, and therefore what we have left to build from. ....

United Kingdom , United States , John Vasconcellos , Andrew Curry , Sven Lindqvist , Ben Okri , Mario Blaser , Dougald Hine , Federico Campagna , Vanessa Machado De Oliveira , Hospicing Modernity , Three Horizons , Graham Leicester , Preindustrial Europe , Marisol De La Cadena , Many Worlds ,

Economic inequality in Germany: A long-run view | VOX, CEPR Policy Portal

New evidence is transforming the way we look at long-term trends in economic inequality. This column reconstructs wealth inequality in the German area over five centuries. The significant declines in inequality triggered by the Black Death and again by the Thirty Years’ War of 1618–1648 and the plague that followed provide strong support for the potential levelling effects of ....

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Bubbling Brews and Broomsticks: How Alewives Became the Stereotypical Witch

Bubbling Brews and Broomsticks
Now, briefly consider the aforementioned points outside the economic benefits: women, single or widowed in a time when being husbandless was considered taboo, working over a hot, black cauldron while young children gathered and collected her ingredients. The woman toiled over her bubbling brew, a thick mixture of natural ingredients that, after fermentation, would eventually create a drink that could cause any man to lose total control if he overindulged. Such a creation sounds more than a little bit like a magical potion, does it not?
Added to the fact that women who chose to run alehouses put themselves in a public space, exposing their brewing process to all who came through their doors. Suddenly, there appears to be visual evidence of some sort of magical workshops at least, that was what the Church and male-run guilds claimed by the early modern period. ....

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Helicopter money in another pandemic recession: Venice, 1630

Lucrezia Reichlin, Adair Turner, Michael Woodford
The COVID-19 pandemic forces swept away some of the conventional taboos in economic thinking, such as the radical idea of helicopter money (Benigno and Nisticò 2020, Cukierman 2020, Galì 2020, Yashiv 2020, Kapoor and Buiter 2020, Velasco et al. 2020). The term uses the fanciful imagery that was originally invented by Milton Friedman (1968). Since the end of the 1990s, Friedman’s idea has received more attention in academia and policy circles.
Precedents to the unprecedented
But what we today refer to as ‘unprecedented’ monetary policies can often have historical precedents (Ugolini 2020). In a recent paper (Goodhart et al. 2021), we wonder whether the economic policy implemented during the years 1629-1631, when the Republic of Venice fought first a famine and then a pandemic, can be considered an historical case of helicopter money. In its relationship with the role of the state, money circulation and banking, ....

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