Pioneers of Capitalism (eBook)

The Netherlands 1000–1800

Maarten Prak, Jan Luiten van Zanden (Autoren)

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2022
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24246-0 (ISBN)

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How medieval Dutch society laid the foundations for modern capitalismThe Netherlands was one of the pioneers of capitalism in the Middle Ages, giving rise to the spectacular Dutch Golden Age while ushering in an era of unprecedented, long-term economic growth. Pioneers of Capitalism examines the formal and informal institutions in the Netherlands that made this economic miracle possible, providing a groundbreaking new history of the emergence and early development of capitalism.Drawing on the latest quantitative theories in economic research, Maarten Prak and Jan Luiten van Zanden show how Dutch cities, corporations, guilds, commons, and other private and semipublic organizations provided safeguards for market transactions in the state's absence. Informal institutions developed in the Netherlands long before the state created public safeguards for economic activity. Prak and van Zanden argue that, in the Netherlands itself, capitalism emerged within a robust civil society that constrained and counterbalanced its centrifugal forces, but that an unrestrained capitalism ruled in the overseas territories. Rather than collapsing under unrestricted greed, the Dutch economy flourished, but prosperity at home came at the price of slavery and other dire consequences for people outside Europe.Pioneers of Capitalism offers a panoramic account of the early history of capitalism, revealing how a small region of medieval Europe transformed itself into a powerhouse of sustained economic growth, and changed the world in the process.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.12.2022
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Übersetzer: Ian Cressie
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus. 7 tables. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: Agricultural Productivity • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Alkmaar • almoner • angel investor • Annexation • At Best • Beeldenstorm • Betterment • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Bourgeoisie • Bruges • business income • Capitalism • Cash • cattle • Central Bank • centrism • Cess • Charles Tilly • civil liberties • Civil Society • Comparative Advantage • Council of the Indies • Counting • debt • Decolonization • delegated authority • Deventer • Disease • dividend • Douglass North • Drenthe • Dutch East India Company • Dutch Golden Age • Dutch Republic • Dutch Revolt • Dutch West India Company • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economic Inequality • Economics • economy • Economy of the Netherlands • editorial • Employment • Entrance Fee • Expropriation • family income • feudalism • Financial Instrument • Financial transaction • flotilla • Fluyt • Free Trade • Frisian freedom • Frisians • From Time Immemorial • Geuzen • Gorinchem • guild • Haarlem • Hanseatic League • head of state • high ground • High Middle Ages • Holy Roman Empire • hostility • human behavior • income • Institution • Interest Rate • International Trade • Investment • Investment Fund • Jacob's • Jan de Vries (linguist) • Johan de Witt • Johan van Oldenbarnevelt • Jurisdiction • Land Tenure • Leiden • Literature • local government • Long-Term Investments • Malaria • Market Economy • Market Orientation • Marxian economics • master craftsman • mercantilism • middle class • Military • Military Service • Monarchy • national identity • Naval architecture • New Class • Ottoman Empire • Ownership • pathogen • Peace and Truce of God • Peace Movement • peasant • percentage • personal experience • Pieter de la Court • Pistoia • Plantation economy • Political organization • Politics • Polygamy • poor relief • Population decline • population density • predestination • Prevalence • Primitive accumulation of capital • Productivity • proletarianization • Protestantism • Proto-state • public administration • Publication • Republicanism • Requirement • Return on Investment • right to property • Roermond • Rule of Law • Security (finance) • Seventeen Provinces • Share Price • Slavery • slowdown • Small Business • social change • Social Insurance • Society • Society of Suriname • sphere of influence • Stadtholder • State Formation • State Religion • Subcontractor • Supply (economics) • Surinam (Dutch colony) • Tax • Technology • The Communist Manifesto • The Establishment • The Origin of Capitalism • The Other Hand • The Wealth of Nations • Thought • Tiel • troop • Typhus • Ukrainians • unequal exchange • urbanization • Urban legend • Vassal • warfare • Water resource management • Wealth • well-being • Western Europe • Why Nations Fail • workhouse • World Economy • Zwolle
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24246-1 / 0691242461
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24246-0 / 9780691242460