Title The long road to the Industrial Revolution : the European economy in a global perspective, 1000-1800 / by Jan Luiten van Zanden

Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 342 pages) : illustrations, map Series Global economic history series, 1872-5155 ; v. 1 Global economic history series ; v. 1. Contents Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution -- Part One -- Medieval Foundations -- Chapter One -- Introducing the Problem: The Emergence of Efficient 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, 5008211;1500 -- Part Two -- The Little Divergence within Europe -- Introducing the Problem -- The Little Divergence within Europe, 14008211;1800 -- Chapter Four -- Girlpower. The European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and Labour Markets in the North Sea Region in the Late Medieval Period -- 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 Morden Economics Growth -- Chapter Seven -- State Formation and Citizenship: The Dutch Republic between Medieval Communes and Modern Nation States -- 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 Summary A ̃The Long Road to the Industrial Revolutiona (TM) offers a new explanation of the origins of the industrial revolution in Western Europe by placing development in Europe within a global perspective. It focuses on its specific institutional and demographic development since the late Middle Ages, and on the important role played by human capital formation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Industrial revolution -- Europe POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History. Economic history Economic policy Industrial revolution Economische ontwikkeling. Industriella revolutionen -- Europa. Industrialismen -- historia -- Europa. SUBJECT Europe -- Economic conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045668 Europe -- Economic policy Subject Europe Europa (geografie) Form Electronic book LC no. 2009012183 ISBN 9789047428626 9047428625 1282602462 9781282602465 9786612602467 6612602465

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