Unreal Wages: Long-Run Living Standards and the ‘Golden Age’ of the Fifteenth Century

2018 ◽  
pp. 227-266 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hatcher
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Long Run

Visibilis et Invisibilis: The Mistress in Italian Renaissance Court Society*

1994 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 770-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen S. Ettlinger
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Italian Renaissance ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Creation

Fifteenth Century Italy has been called both the “golden age of bastards” and the “age of golden bastards.” But while scholars from Jacob Burckhardt to Lauro Martines have decried princely infidelity and the political problems resulting from the promotion of the inevitable bastards, they have not discussed a central character in the creation of such situations: the mother of those bastards or, more properly, the mistress of the prince. “Golden bastards,” male and female, could not have existed without the tacit cooperation of noble women and the men who protected them – husbands, fathers, and brothers. And herein lies a conundrum. Paternal, spousal, and/or fraternal consent to an illicit relationship which was, at best, a tenuous claim on the generosity of a prince might appear to violate the model constructed by family historians of a society concerned with preserving the honor of their women in order to enhance the family's position through advantageous marital alliances of the virgin daughters.

scholarly journals The Need to Approach the Management of the Tourist Destination by the Central and Local Public Authorities in Romania

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Virgil Nicula ◽  
Simona Spânu
Keyword(s):  
Professional Associations ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Social Categories ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Anthropogenic Resources ◽  
Private Investors

Abstract In the medium and long term, priorities in the development of tourism aim to develop a complex tourist offer, making the most of the natural and anthropogenic resources existing in connection with the preservation of the environment and the heritage. On the long run, it will contribute to raising the living standards of the population, especially social categories with lower chances of reintegration into the labour market (people made redundant in industry, elderly people etc.). Implementation of the strategy at regional level must be achieved through an active partnership between Romanian public authorities, economic agents and private investors, with the involvement of the federation of employers in the sector and of the professional associations.

Migrant Age Profiles and Long‐Run Living Standards in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Parr ◽  
Ross Guest
Keyword(s):  
Living Standards ◽  
Long Run

scholarly journals UNA DE CAL Y OTRA DE ARENA: BUILDING COMPARABLE REAL WAGES IN A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE

2015 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert C. Allen ◽  
Tommy E. Murphy ◽  
Eric B. Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Convincing Evidence ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Spanish America ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Real Wages ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Standards Of Living

ABSTRACTThis paper discusses some of the criticisms recently raised by Rafael Dobado-González about our work on real wages in the Americas in the long run. Although addressing a series of issues, Dobado mainly questions our use of the welfare ratio methodology to assess standards of living in colonial Spanish America. In this article we explain how, despite its limitations, this methodology provides a solid, transparent metric to compare economic development across space and time. In particular, welfare ratios present more economically relevant information on living standards than the commodity wages that Dobado prefers (Dobado González and García Montero 2014). We argue that Dobado fails to offer convincing evidence against our findings; hence, we stand by these results, which suggest that the divergence between North and Latin America began early in the colonial period.

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