Reconstruction National Accounts of Holland, 1500-1800 ...

The aim of this project is to analyse the economic development of Holland in the early modern period on the basis of a reconstruction of its national accounts. It has been one of the first times the system of national accounts is applied to the study of a pre-industrial economy. The project is confined to the province of Holland, which was demographically and economically the most important part of the Northern Netherlands during this period. Our main method is to gather specific information on annual output and added value in each of the most important economic branches, following the System... Mehr ...