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Pomeranz (2000: 49). See Pomeranz (op. cit. 31) for his summary of the standard literature.
Really the small towns in southern England whose wages were collected by Phelps Brown and Hopkins (1955).
Oxford is among them.While house rents have been included in the consumer price indices of some cities, no systematic attempt has yet been made to compare house rents across countries as well as over time. While that is a major limitation of the existing estimates, rent accounted for only 5—10% of consumer spending, so its importance should not be overstated.
For 1727-1831, Saito's (1978: 89-91) nominal wage series for carpenters and day labourers in Kyoto and day labourers in Kamikawarabayashi were deflated by Crawcour and Yamamura's (1970) ‘Sauerbeck’ and Kyoto consumer price indices. (Saito's wage series, which end in 1830, were extended to 1831 on the assumption that they equalled 100 in that year.) These series were extended to 1880-4 using Williamson's (1998: 39) real wage series for Japanese workers. The resulting three series were linked to the real wages of building craftsmen, labourers, and farm labourers computed from Ohkawa (1967) as explained in the text.
Desai (1972, 1978), Heston (1977), Moosvi (1973, 1977). Mukerjee (1976) produced a parallel set of calculations that made their way into the debate.
Work has been done on this question for India—for example, Habib (1963, 1982), Hasan (1969), Chaudhuri, S. (1977), Chaudhuri, K. N. (1978), Attman (1981), van Santen (1982), and Prakash (1985)—but the range and completeness of the wage and price series are far less than for Europe.
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