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Author_Jan Luiten van Zanden
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Colonial surplus
Competition
Corporatism
Credit risk
Cultivation System
Currency
Dividend
Economic development
Economic growth
Economic Life
Economic policy
Economics
Economist
Economy
Economy of the Netherlands
Employment
Entrepreneurship
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Financial crisis
Financial services
Fourth Anglo-Dutch War
Free trade
Government debt
Income
Industrial production
Industrialisation
Industry
Infrastructure
Institution
Insurance
Interest rate
International trade
Investor
Laborer
Legislation
Liberalization
Manufacturing
Market price
Measures of national income and output
National accounts
Payment
Politician
Politics
Poor relief
Primary sector of the economy
Protectionism
Public finance
Real wages
Recession
Saving
Scarcity
Secondary sector of the economy
Service Sector
Shipbuilding
Stadtholder
Subsidy
Supply (economics)
Tariff
Tax
Trade union
Unemployment
Urbanization
Wage
Wealth
World economy
Product details
- ISBN 9780691114385
- Weight: 709g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A major feat of research and synthesis, this book presents the first comprehensive history of the Dutch economy in the nineteenth century--an important but poorly understood piece of European economic history. Based on a detailed reconstruction of extensive economic data, the authors account for demise of the Dutch economy's golden age. After showing how institutional factors combined to make the Dutch economy a victim of its own success, the book traces its subsequent emergence as a modern industrial economy. Between 1780 and 1914, the Netherlands went through a double transition. Its economy--which, in the words of Adam Smith, was approaching a "stationary state" in the eighteenth century--entered a process of modern economic growth during the middle decades of the nineteenth. At the same time, the country's sociopolitical structure was undergoing radical transformation as the decentralized polity of the republic gave way to a unitary state. As the authors show, the dramatic transformation of the Dutch political structure was intertwined with equally radical changes in the institutional structure of the economy.
The outcome of this dual transition was a rapidly industrializing economy on one side and, on the other, the neocorporatist sociopolitical structure that would characterize the Netherlands in the twentieth century. Analyzing both processes with a focus on institutional change, this book argues that the economic and political development of the Netherlands can be understood only in tandem.
Jan Luiten van Zanden is Professor of Economic History at Utrecht University and a senior research scholar at the International Institute of Social History. Arthur van Riel is a Senior Economist in the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and a member of the Netherlands's Economic Institute in Rotterdam.
