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Discusses papers about textile industries in Europe. Paper by Albion Urdank that examined entrepreneurial failure in woolen trade in Gloucestershire, England; Paper by John Lyons that deals with the cotton industry of Lancashire and northeast Cheshire in England; Leonard Rosenband's paper that deals with a French paper mill.

Presents an abstract of a conference paper on the history of institutional foundations of impersonal exchange in Medieval Europe.

Comments on studies made on trends in standards of living during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Limitation of the studies; Views on Europe's industrialization.

Focuses on the peasant society as an issue in studying economic history. Examples of researchers that have dealt with the peasant society; Discussion on the neglect that have been given to the peasant society during the period of feudalism in Europe.

The literature currently offers no consistent narrative about economic development on Europe's southeastern periphery prior to 1945. Did per capita GNP in the Balkans converge with the rest of Europe? We present new GNP estimates for Bulgaria for 1892–1911 and link these with a new degree of precision to the data available for the 1920s. Our data reveal stagnation in per capita GNP from 1879 to the 1930s. But within agriculture we find evidence for a new phase of intensification from the 1920s onwards. The preconditions for growth, some- times attributed to Communism, were in place well before 1945. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Focuses on the origin of tax systems in England, France, Spain, and Venice, Italy. Purpose of the tax system; Effect of the tax system on the region's economy; Influence to the long-term character of taxation.