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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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Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc . By William Beik. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii, 375. $44.50.
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Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500-1789
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New Evidence for an Old Controversy: Scattered Landholdings and Open Fields
TL;DR: This paper showed that the real reduction in risk came not from scattering but from the diversification across crops inherent in the three-field system, and they also distinguish the benefits of scattering from those produced by crop diversification with greater accuracy than the output figures.
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Opening Our Eyes: History and the Social Sciences
TL;DR: The authors make practically no use of new intellectual tools from the social sciences that are revolutionizing fields such as law or political science, even though the tools lend themselves to the study of the past.
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No Exit: Notarial Bankruptcies and the Evolution of Financial Intermediation in Nineteenth Century Paris
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of competition, asymmetric information, and financial regulation in the early nineteenth-century Paris financial market is studied. But the authors focus on the role played by notaries and bankers.