The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution: The European economy in a global perspective, 1000-1800

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List of Illustrations Introduction: The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution Part One Medieval Foundations Introducing the Problem: The Emergence of Efficient Institutions in the Middle Ages Why the European Economy Expanded Rapidly in a Period of Political Fragmentation Book Production as a Mirror of Emerging European Knowledge Economy (with Eltjo Buringh) Part Two The Little Divergence within Europe Introducing the Problem: the Little Divergence within Europe, 1400-1800 4. Girlpower. The European Marriage Pattern and Labour Markets in the North Sea Tegion in the Late Medieval Period (with Tine de Moor) Part Three Common Workmen, Philosophers and the Birth of a European Knowledge Economy Introducing the Problem: The Birth of a European Knowledge Economy 5. The Human Capital of the Common Workmen: European Skill Premium in the a Global Perspective 6. The Philosophers and the Revolution of the Printing Press Part Four Towards the Dual Revolution: State Formation and Modern Economic Growth 7. State Formation and Citizenship: The Dutch Republic between Medieval Communes and Modern Nation States (with Maarten Prak). 8. The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth in the North Sea Region Part Five Two Great Divergences 9. 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

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