Aashish Velkar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1048003 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Aashish Velkar |
| PRENOMES | Aashish |
| SOBRENOME | Velkar |
| ASSINATURA | VELKAR A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3885-8558 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 11 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 11 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Storm in a teacup
This article uses the origin marking of tea as a case study to examine contemporary debates on imperial preference and 'soft' trade protection.The case integrates three themes affecting the UK business environment during the 1920s: protectionism, imperial tariff preference, and consumer choice.We discuss the extent to which consumers' tea purchases were influenced by proprietary brand, or geographical origin.Our analysis focuses on the legislativ…
Measurement Standards and Market Governance
This article examines the work of the London Corn Trade Association (LCTA) in developing tools for measuring produce quality and resolving governance issues in international grain markets. The rules, practices, and routines for international grain traders standardized by LCTA aided commercial decision making, lowered transaction costs and facilitated dispute resolution between private economic actors. Its activities provide an ideal case to study…
Emily Erikson, Trade and Nation
Trade and Nation describes important changes that occurred in the economic literature in seventeenth-century England and explains why these changes occurred in this period. As the author, Emily Erikson, claims, ‘in the 17th century people began to frame and conceptualise economic matters differently. Growth replaced fair exchange as the standard by which economic activity was judged.’ (3). Her overarching argument is that English merchants, attem…
Making Inferences from Index Numbers (1860–1914)
Index numbers are indirect measurements as well as composite quantities that present particular inferential challenges to the measurer and their intended audiences. The early history of the use of index numbers in British economics (ca. 1860–1914) shows that making inferences using this measuring instrument was rife with problems. Economists grappled with multiple “inferential gaps” in order to make inferences from index numbers. The extent to wh…
Imperial Folly”
European integration policies inflamed anti-Europe sentiments in Britain and exposed the fragility of democratic institutions in the face of populist campaigning. This article demonstrates how Europe became the focus of British anxiety about globalization and activated concerns for national sovereignty. Using the example of metrication in the 1970s, the article situates the abstract notions of globalization and sovereignty in material and everyda…
Swadeshi Capitalism in Colonial Bombay
This article examines economic nationalism in India, specifically the role of capitalists in late colonial Bombay. It shows how swadeshi was the fulcrum that supported the expressions of nationalism and capitalism. The notion that Indian capital needed to be used for the benefit of Indian nationals became established as nationalist thought by the 1930s. Such swadeshi capitalism – Indian capital for Indian industries – recasts the notion of swades…
Rethinking Metrology, Nationalism and Development in India, 1833-1956
Jawaharlal Nehru, writing to his chief ministers in 1955, reminded them ‘the metric system like the zero symbol, originated in India. This was a gift of India to the world, but in this, as in some other matters, we lagged behind and other countries went ahead’.1 This claim is clearly disputable: the metric system was forged during the turbulence of the French Revolution in the 1790s. But Nehru’s statement illustrates how, as part of India’s moder…
Spinning a Yarn”
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce established the Manchester Testing House in 1895, and introduced uniform yarn contracting rules in 1897. The chamber made these institutional “innovations” to deal with the nefarious practice of “short-reeling.” This case study explains how and why merchants were crucial to undoing weaknesses in domestic —and to some extent foreign—legislation to overcome this fraudulent activity. We argue that the Testing House…
Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Transactions, standardisation and competition
When science could not provide a solution to transaction problems in the British wire industry c.1880, market groups had to negotiate a business solution. This involved converging towards a ‘one-size-fits-all’ standard: a process requiring compromises and cooperation between competitive firms, and solving coordination failure through state intervention. This paper demonstrates how different groups held different notions of ‘ideal’ standards depen…
Caveat Emptor
This article evaluates efforts to standardize quantities in the London coal trade c1830, and traces the end of the public measurement system first introduced in the fourteenth century. Increasing traffic in coal, reduction of taxes on the commodity, inefficient public meters, etc., contributed to the demise of public measurements. This outcome was the result of extensive negotiations between merchants, the various levels of state bureaucracy, and…
Swadeshi Capitalism in Colonial Bombay
This article examines economic nationalism in India, specifically the role of capitalists in late colonial Bombay. It shows how swadeshi was the fulcrum that supported the expressions of nationalism and capitalism. The notion that Indian capital needed to be used for the benefit of Indian nationals became established as nationalist thought by the 1930s. Such swadeshi capitalism – Indian capital for Indian industries – recasts the notion of swades…
Transactions, standardisation and competition
When science could not provide a solution to transaction problems in the British wire industry c.1880, market groups had to negotiate a business solution. This involved converging towards a ‘one-size-fits-all’ standard: a process requiring compromises and cooperation between competitive firms, and solving coordination failure through state intervention. This paper demonstrates how different groups held different notions of ‘ideal’ standards depen…
Storm in a teacup
This article uses the origin marking of tea as a case study to examine contemporary debates on imperial preference and 'soft' trade protection.The case integrates three themes affecting the UK business environment during the 1920s: protectionism, imperial tariff preference, and consumer choice.We discuss the extent to which consumers' tea purchases were influenced by proprietary brand, or geographical origin.Our analysis focuses on the legislativ…
Rethinking Metrology, Nationalism and Development in India, 1833-1956
Jawaharlal Nehru, writing to his chief ministers in 1955, reminded them ‘the metric system like the zero symbol, originated in India. This was a gift of India to the world, but in this, as in some other matters, we lagged behind and other countries went ahead’.1 This claim is clearly disputable: the metric system was forged during the turbulence of the French Revolution in the 1790s. But Nehru’s statement illustrates how, as part of India’s moder…
Spinning a Yarn”
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce established the Manchester Testing House in 1895, and introduced uniform yarn contracting rules in 1897. The chamber made these institutional “innovations” to deal with the nefarious practice of “short-reeling.” This case study explains how and why merchants were crucial to undoing weaknesses in domestic —and to some extent foreign—legislation to overcome this fraudulent activity. We argue that the Testing House…
Caveat Emptor
This article evaluates efforts to standardize quantities in the London coal trade c1830, and traces the end of the public measurement system first introduced in the fourteenth century. Increasing traffic in coal, reduction of taxes on the commodity, inefficient public meters, etc., contributed to the demise of public measurements. This outcome was the result of extensive negotiations between merchants, the various levels of state bureaucracy, and…
Transactions, standardisation and competition
When science could not provide a solution to transaction problems in the British wire industry c.1880, market groups had to negotiate a business solution. This involved converging towards a ‘one-size-fits-all’ standard: a process requiring compromises and cooperation between competitive firms, and solving coordination failure through state intervention. This paper demonstrates how different groups held different notions of ‘ideal’ standards depen…
Markets and Measurements in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Spinning a Yarn”
The Manchester Chamber of Commerce established the Manchester Testing House in 1895, and introduced uniform yarn contracting rules in 1897. The chamber made these institutional “innovations” to deal with the nefarious practice of “short-reeling.” This case study explains how and why merchants were crucial to undoing weaknesses in domestic —and to some extent foreign—legislation to overcome this fraudulent activity. We argue that the Testing House…
Rethinking Metrology, Nationalism and Development in India, 1833-1956
Jawaharlal Nehru, writing to his chief ministers in 1955, reminded them ‘the metric system like the zero symbol, originated in India. This was a gift of India to the world, but in this, as in some other matters, we lagged behind and other countries went ahead’.1 This claim is clearly disputable: the metric system was forged during the turbulence of the French Revolution in the 1790s. But Nehru’s statement illustrates how, as part of India’s moder…
Imperial Folly”
European integration policies inflamed anti-Europe sentiments in Britain and exposed the fragility of democratic institutions in the face of populist campaigning. This article demonstrates how Europe became the focus of British anxiety about globalization and activated concerns for national sovereignty. Using the example of metrication in the 1970s, the article situates the abstract notions of globalization and sovereignty in material and everyda…
Swadeshi Capitalism in Colonial Bombay
This article examines economic nationalism in India, specifically the role of capitalists in late colonial Bombay. It shows how swadeshi was the fulcrum that supported the expressions of nationalism and capitalism. The notion that Indian capital needed to be used for the benefit of Indian nationals became established as nationalist thought by the 1930s. Such swadeshi capitalism – Indian capital for Indian industries – recasts the notion of swades…
Emily Erikson, Trade and Nation
Trade and Nation describes important changes that occurred in the economic literature in seventeenth-century England and explains why these changes occurred in this period. As the author, Emily Erikson, claims, ‘in the 17th century people began to frame and conceptualise economic matters differently. Growth replaced fair exchange as the standard by which economic activity was judged.’ (3). Her overarching argument is that English merchants, attem…
Making Inferences from Index Numbers (1860–1914)
Index numbers are indirect measurements as well as composite quantities that present particular inferential challenges to the measurer and their intended audiences. The early history of the use of index numbers in British economics (ca. 1860–1914) shows that making inferences using this measuring instrument was rife with problems. Economists grappled with multiple “inferential gaps” in order to make inferences from index numbers. The extent to wh…
Measurement Standards and Market Governance
This article examines the work of the London Corn Trade Association (LCTA) in developing tools for measuring produce quality and resolving governance issues in international grain markets. The rules, practices, and routines for international grain traders standardized by LCTA aided commercial decision making, lowered transaction costs and facilitated dispute resolution between private economic actors. Its activities provide an ideal case to study…
Storm in a teacup
This article uses the origin marking of tea as a case study to examine contemporary debates on imperial preference and 'soft' trade protection.The case integrates three themes affecting the UK business environment during the 1920s: protectionism, imperial tariff preference, and consumer choice.We discuss the extent to which consumers' tea purchases were influenced by proprietary brand, or geographical origin.Our analysis focuses on the legislativ…
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