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The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century
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The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century Hardcover - 2004

by Jan Luiten Van Zanden; Arthur Van Riel; Ian Cressie (Translator)


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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.

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One of the original ways of typifying the development of the economy of the Dutch Republic during the eighteenth century involves viewing it as having reached a stationary equilibrium.

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"This is one of the most comprehensive, integrated, and data-rich economic histories that exists for any nineteenth-century European economy. This is all the more remarkable since--until the research that led to this book--the Dutch nineteenth century was a veritable black hole of economic history."--Jan de Vries, Unversity of California, Berkeley

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  • Title The Strictures of Inheritance: The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century
  • Author Jan Luiten Van Zanden; Arthur Van Riel; Ian Cressie (Translator)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 416
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Date 2004-04-18
  • ISBN 9780691114385 / 0691114382
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.32 x 1.17 in (23.88 x 16.05 x 2.97 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Benelux
  • Library of Congress subjects Netherlands - Economic conditions, Netherlands - Economic policy
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003056328
  • Dewey Decimal Code 330.949

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  • Choice, 11/01/2004, Page 535

About the author

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.
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