Persistent but not consistent: The growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807

Zanden, Jan Luiten van; Leeuwen, Bas van

doi:10.1016/j.eeh.2011.11.002

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“…9 On Dutch economic stagnation after the Golden Age, see De Vries and Van der Woude (1997); Van Zanden and Van Riel (2004). Van Zanden and Van Leeuwen (2012) present new estimates suggesting that the province of Holland experienced stagnation rather than actual decline between c. 1670 and c. 1800, but their figures refer solely to Holland, by far the most economically successful province. Even for Holland, industry had a near-zero growth rate between 1665 and 1800 and trade contracted at a rate of 0.13 percent p.a.…”

Section: Human Capital Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?

Dennison¹,

Ogilvie²

2014

J. Econ. Hist.

130

109

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This article scrutinizes the recently postulated link between the European Marriage Pattern (EMP) and economic success. Multivariate analysis of 4,705 demographic observations, covering women's marriage age, female lifetime celibacy, and household complexity in 39 European countries, shows that the most extreme manifestations of the EMP were associated with economic stagnation rather than growth. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment, adjusting population to economic trends, or sustaining beneficial cultural norms. European economic success was not caused by the EMP and its sources must therefore be sought in other factors.istorical demography has attracted much attention in recent years, as economists have begun to incorporate demographic behavior into theories of long-run growth. Several recent contributions to this literature focus on household formation patterns, arguing that the explanation for western economic success was the European

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Section: Human Capital Investmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?

Dennison¹,

Ogilvie²

2014

J. Econ. Hist.

130

109

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“…The British data, taken from Broadberry et al (2015a) for the period 1270-1870, cover the territory of England before 1700 and Great Britain between 1700 and 1870, before linking up with Maddison's (2010) estimates for the United Kingdom. The Dutch data for the period 1348-1807 from van Zanden and van Leeuwen (2012) cover the territory of Holland and link up with Maddison's (2010) Table 1 support the notion of a reversal of fortunes between the North Sea area and Mediterranean Europe, sometimes known as the Little Divergence (Broadberry, 2014). Before the Black Death in 1348, per capita incomes were substantially higher in Italy and Spain than in England and Holland, whereas by 1750 on the eve of the Industrial Revolution, per capita incomes were substantially higher in Great Britain and the Netherlands than in Italy and Spain.…”

Section: European Growth and Development 1270-2008mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Britain and Holland have very rich data, with historical national accountants able to build on decades of detailed data processing by generations of scholars as well as well-stocked archives (Broadberry et al 2015a;van Zanden and van Leeuwen 2012). For other countries, where information is more limited, or where there has been less processing of existing data, Malanima (2011), Álvarez-Nogal and Prados de la Escosura (2013) and others have developed a short-cut method for reconstructing GDP.…”

Section: European Growth and Development 1270-2008mentioning

confidence: 99%

Economic Development in Africa and Europe: Reciprocal Comparisons

Broadberry¹,

Gardner

2015

RHE / JILAEH

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Recent advances in historical national accounting have allowed for global comparisons of GDP per capita across space and time. Critics have argued that GDP per capita fails to capture adequately the multi-dimensional nature of welfare, and have developed alternative measures such as the human development index. Whilst recognising that these wider indicators provide an appropriate way of assessing levels of welfare, we argue that GDP per capita remains a more appropriate measure for assessing development potential, focussing on production possibilities and the sustainability of consumption. Twentieth-century Africa and pre-industrial Europe are used to show how such data can guide reciprocal comparisons to provide insights into the process of development on both continents.

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“…18 This formed the starting point for a detailed reconstruction of the national accounts of Holland between 1347 and 1807 (linking these estimates to nineteenth century national accounts). 19 It turned out that before the year 1500, GDP per capita had already increased substantially, confĳirming the impression that in the Late Medieval Period the economy of Holland had already 'taken offf'. 20 Moreover, in the 1670s, the turning point that is generally accepted as having ended the Golden Age, there was not a decisive break in per capita growth (although there was in terms of population growth).…”

Section: Quantifying Growth Factors In the Economy Of Hollandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Debates on Industrialisation and Economic Growth in the Netherlands

Jong¹,

Zanden²

2014

Tijdschrift Voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis/ the Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History

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With the renewed interest in macro-economic quantifi cation since the 1950s the study of long-term economic growth and development became also an important theme within the discipline of economic history. It developed into a major tool to analyse the process of industrialisation and to identify the forces which explain long-term growth and stagnation of the rich and poor parts of the world. This chapter examines the new branch of macro-economic history as it developed in the Netherlands after 1945. This new approach initially focused on the problem of the slow industrialization during the nineteenth century, but gradually branched out to include the early modern period and the twentieth century. Studies in this fi eld were characterized by a strong quantitative orientation, and resulted in systematic overview of the growth of the Dutch economy from the Late Middle Ages to the present.

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Persistent but not consistent: The growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807

Cited by 139 publications

References 20 publications

Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?

Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth?

Economic Development in Africa and Europe: Reciprocal Comparisons

Debates on Industrialisation and Economic Growth in the Netherlands

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