Title:Fire and Fuels: CO2 and SO2 Emissions in the Finnish Economy, 1800–2005
Author(s):KUNNAS, JanDate:2009Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:This thesis examines Finland‘s transition from a solar based energy system to a fossil fuel based one, and the environmental consequences of this transition. The period under examination is from the beginning of the 19th ...
Title:The first European grain invasion: a study in the integration of the European market 1750-1870
Author(s):FEDERICO, GiovanniDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI HECAbstract:This paper argues that market integration should be measured as σ-convergence over
the largest possible sample of markets. It test this claim with an empirical analysis of the
European market for wheat, rye and candles ...
Title:Forerunners and Policy Tunnels
Author(s):KUNNAS, Jan; MYLLYNTAUS, TimoDate:2008Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:Based on a comparison of the carbon dioxide emissions of three EU member states and Switzerland for the period 1870 to 2003, we show that for cumulative pollutants focusing on yearly emissions is utterly misleading. ...
Title:Forum: Intellectual history in and of the Federal Republic of Germany
Author(s):MOSES, A. DirkDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:What can one say about the state of the art in the Federal Republic? A number of aspects are discernible, not only in the practices and various traditions of intellectual history there, but also in its politics: the stark ...
Title:Fra Mauro's Mappa Mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice
Author(s):CATTANEO, AngeloDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:BookAbstract:Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth and the Cosmos of the fifteenth century. By examining ...