Rent controls always reduced the cost of rent, but private housing construction tended to decline, forcing the government to take on expensive ... were mostly higher as Japan's economy expanded ...

The process of transfer printing on pottery ... collecting pot lids today need not be an expensive pastime. With fewer new collectors coming onto the scene, some prices have fallen substantially in ...

It could be expensive in other ways too as every ounce of silver assayed by the crown incurred a duty of six pence. Instead, as early as 1710 silversmiths in the prosperous ports of Cork and Limerick ...