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...

Inhalt: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: The Market as a party? -- 2. Eight hundred years of economic growth, 1000-1800 -- 3. Between feudalism and freedom, 1000-1350 -- 4. Capitalism and civil society in late Medieval Holland, 1350-1566 -- 5. A capitalist revolution? The Dutch...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 How is money created? -- Chapter 3 The history of money creation -- Chapter 4 An appraisal of the financial monetary system -- Chapter 5 How does the sovereign money system work? -- Chapter 6 Advantages and disadvantages of the sovereign money system --...