Trials of convergence : : prices, markets and industrialization in the Netherlands, 1800-1913 / / Arthur van Riel.
"For over a century now, historians have debated the causes of the lagged industrialization of the Dutch economy during the nineteenth century. To this debate, Trials of Convergence brings the analytical perspective of prices, factor costs and the functioning of markets. Its critical insight is...
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| Superior document: | Library of Economic History |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherland ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Library of Economic History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (644 pages) |
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| Summary: | "For over a century now, historians have debated the causes of the lagged industrialization of the Dutch economy during the nineteenth century. To this debate, Trials of Convergence brings the analytical perspective of prices, factor costs and the functioning of markets. Its critical insight is that only an approach based on the integrated incentive structure of the economy allows us to delimit the role of alternative explanations. Using statistical reconstruction and microdata, it shows that the retarded transition resulted from a confluence of forces. These ranged from open economy effects and natural endowments to the fiscal policy stance adopted in response to Belgian secession. At the height of the British Industrial Revolution the Dutch economy slowed, triggering a return to the problems of eighteenth-century stagnation. All this meant that the transition to 'modern economic growth' after 1860 came about only in a changed international context and after a period of politico-economic reform"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9004460802 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Arthur van Riel. |