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Grain Policies and Storage in Southern Germany: The Regensburg Hospital (17th-19th Centuries)

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  • Pindl Kathrin

    (Universität Regensburg, D-93040Regensburg, Germany)

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This paper is concerned with the storage policy of the citizens’ hospital of Regensburg in the Early Modern period (focus: 18th century). The main purpose consists of (1) a source-based micro-study that helps to derive insights into the mechanisms of how experiences and expectations have influenced decisions by a pre-modern institution, (2) an analytical scheme for describing and evaluating the process of decision-making based on narrative evidence, and (3) the suggestion of analytical categories. These should allow a differentiation between time-invariant human behaviour that determines economic decisions, and time-specific factors which can be used to separate possibly “pre-modern” patterns from seemingly modern-day capitalist economic performance.

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  • Pindl Kathrin, 2018. "Grain Policies and Storage in Southern Germany: The Regensburg Hospital (17th-19th Centuries)," Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, De Gruyter, vol. 59(2), pages 415-445, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bpj:jbwige:v:59:y:2018:i:2:p:415-445:n:4
    DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2018-0014
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    Keywords

    granary; grain storage; historical commodity markets; decisionmaking behaviour; agents; premodern; Getreidekasten; Getreidelagerung; Historische Rohstoffmärkte; Entscheidungsverhalten; Akteure; Vormoderne;
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    • B - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology
    • D - Microeconomics
    • D - Microeconomics
    • D - Microeconomics
    • I - Health, Education, and Welfare
    • N - Economic History
    • N - Economic History
    • N - Economic History
    • Z - Other Special Topics

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