Trials of Convergence: Prices, markets and industrialization in the Netherlands, 1800-1913

For over a century now, historians have debated the causes of the lagged industrialization of the Dutch economy during the nineteenth century. In doing so, successive generations have offered widely varying explanations that focused on specific proximate causes. At the same time, the change from an assumed macroeconomic stagnation to a process of sustained income growth was placed at different moments in time. To this status quo of parallel hypotheses on the timing and mechanisms of the Dutch growth transition, the present study brings the analytical perspective of relative prices, the functio... Mehr ...