Digging Deeper: Global Coal Prices and Industrial Growth, 1840-1960

<p>This thesis investigates to what extent coal prices differed globally during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and whether those differences mattered for economic development. The backbone of my empirical investigation is a new dataset of annual coal prices spanning the years 1840 to...

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Main Author: Wegerich, A
Other Authors: O'Rourke, K
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
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