Long Road to the Industrial Revolution : The European economy in a global Perspective, 1000-1800

1 online resource (360 pages)

Global Economic History Ser. ; v.1

Global economic history series ; v. 1

Includes bibliographical references and index

CONTENTS; List of Illustrations; Introduction: The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution; PART ONE MEDIEVAL FOUNDATIONS; Chapter One Introducing the Problem: The Emergence of Effi cient Institutions in the Middle Ages; Chapter Two Why the European Economy Expanded Rapidly in a Period of Political Fragmentation; Chapter Three Book Production as a Mirror of the Emerging Medieval Knowledge Economy, 500-1500 (with Eltjo Buringh); PART TWO THE LITTLE DIVERGENCE WITHIN EUROPE; Introducing the Problem: The Little Divergence within Europe, 1400-1800

Chapter Four Girlpower. The European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and Labour Markets in the North Sea Region in the Late Medieval Period (with Tine de Moor)PART THREE COMMON WORKMEN, PHILOSOPHERS AND THE BIRTH OF A EUROPEAN KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; Introducing the Problem: The Birth of the European Knowledge Economy; Chapter Five The Human Capital of the Common Workmen: European Skill Premium in a Global Perspective; Chapter Six The Philosophers and the Revolution of the Printing Press; PART FOUR TOWARDS THE DUAL REVOLUTION: STATE FORMATION AND MODERN ECONOMIC GROWTH

Chapter Seven State Formation and Citizenship: The Dutch Republic between Medieval Communes and Modern Nation States (with Maarten Prak)Chapter Eight The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth in the North Sea Region; PART FIVE TWO GREAT DIVERGENCES; Chapter Nine The Arab World, China, and Japan; Conclusion 'A Million Mutinies'; Appendix One Further Experiments with the Cobb Douglas Production Function: Italy and Western Europe; Appendix Two Estimating Chinese GDP Per Capita in the Eighteenth Century; References; Index of Subjects

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