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Philip T. Hoffman
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 69
Citations - 2168
Philip T. Hoffman is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Financial intermediary & Bond market. The author has an hindex of 28, co-authored 68 publications receiving 2100 citations.
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Real inequality in Europe since 1500
TL;DR: This article introduced a concept of real, as opposed to nominal, inequality of income or wealth, which suggests some historical reinterpretations, buttressed by a closer look at consumption by the rich.
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Priceless Markets: The Political Economy of Credit in Paris, 1660-1870
TL;DR: Priceless markets as discussed by the authors shows how credit markets functioned in Paris, through the agency of notaries, during a critical period of French history, and challenges the usual assumption that organized financial markets - and hence the opportnity for economic growth - did not emerge outside of England and the Netherlands until the 19th century.
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Growth in a Traditional Society: The French Countryside, 1450-1815.
Daniel Hickey,Philip T. Hoffman +1 more
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The Political Economy of Warfare and Taxation in Early Modern Europe: Historical Lessons for Economic Development
TL;DR: The authors argued that institutions are not fixed and exogenous, and their variation is ultimately what explains why some economies remain mired in abject poverty while others manage to prosper, and they have been called the cause of long-term economic growth.
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Fiscal crises, liberty, and representative government, 1450-1789
TL;DR: In this article, Hoffman and Kathryn proposed a method to solve the problem of the "SACKS" problem by using the KATHRYN algorithm. But the method was not suitable for the case of the HOFFMAN algorithm.