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SEMINARY OF ECONOMICS. "Some Discoveries in Economic History." M. le vicomte Georges d'Avenel. Faculty Room, University...
...Georges d'Avenel delivered the fifth Hyde lecture yesterday afternoon on "Le budget des depenses de l'ouvrier et du paysan, depuis sept cent...
...Avenel stated that the expenditures of agricultural and commercial workmen did not increase in proportion to their salaries, but that they were governed by independent laws. In the fifteenth century, transport from Rouen to Amiens (80 miles) cost as much as the transport today from the west of the United States to Havre would cost; but the wages of labor in the sixteenth century represented 10 hectolitres of wheat, while nowadays they represent 37 1-2 hectolitres...
...Avenel then traced the changes in price which had affected other food products from the Middle Ages down to the present time. Similar changes have indirectly applied to clothing as well. Now a suit of clothes represents about four per cent of the income of the average workingman, whereas in old times it represented about eight per cent of the salaries...
...CERCLE FRANCAIS LECTURES. VI. "Einfluence de I'Etat et celle des mouvements de la population sur le prix dutravail." M. le vicomte Georges d'Avenel. Sanders Theatre, 4.30 P. M. Admission by ticket until five minutes before the beginning of the lecture; after that time open to the public...