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SUMMARY:'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal
  Inventories' - Professor Sheilagh Ogilvie\, Dr Markus Küpker and Dr Jani
 ne Maegraith
DTSTART:20100215T170000Z
DTEND:20100215T190000Z
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CONTACT:D'Maris Coffman
DESCRIPTION:For more details\, see:\nhttp://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/Ogilvie_ESR
 C/index.html?page=about\n\nFor a summary of the project:\n\n"How do consum
 ption\, production and reproduction interact to improve human well-being? 
 The project addresses this question by exploring the theory of the ‘Indu
 strious Revolution’ – the idea that after about 1650 Europeans shifted
  time out of leisure and household production into market work and consump
 tion\, thereby preparing the way for modern economic growth. \nThe theory 
 is supposed to apply to all of Europe\, but is based almost exclusively on
  English and Dutch evidence before c. 1750. \nWe aim to add substance to t
 he Industrious Revolution by focussing on a Central European economy (the 
 southwest German territory of Württemberg) where extraordinarily rich per
 sonal inventories survive from c. 1600 to c. 1900. By linking inventories 
 with family reconstitutions and other local sources\, we aim to create a d
 atabase permitting a multivariate analysis of increases in market consumpt
 ion and production\, as a function of factors such as gender\, marital sta
 tus\, fertility\, age\, occupation\, local office-holding\, literacy\, lan
 downership\, credit relationships\, kinship circles\, community citizenshi
 p\, guild membership\, and other measures of ‘social capital’. \nThe p
 roject thus aims to explore the determinants of changes in human well-bein
 g over three centuries by bringing to bear new evidence\, new methods\, an
 d new conceptual tools. In so doing\, it hopes to address open questions a
 bout the long-term interrelationships between consumption\, work\, demogra
 phic outcomes\, and human well-being.\nThe project is generously supported
 \, as Research Grant RES-062-23-0759\, by the Economic and Social Research
  Council (ESRC)."\n\nThere will be a drinks reception following the talk f
 rom 6.45-7.15.
LOCATION:Sidgwick Hall (or Old Dining Room)\, Newnham College
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