Description
This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Chapter 1 Markets in History: A Survey; Chapter 2 The Course of Early Modern Market Integration: Country-Level Results; Chapter 3 The Course of Early Modern Market Integration: The Mediterranean and the North-West Region; Chapter 4 Early Modern Market Integration in a Longer Run Perspective; Chapter 5 The Causes of Early Modern Market Integration and Disintegration; Chapter 6 The Consequences of Early Modern Markets: An Examination of the Relationship Between Markets and Economic Growth; Chapter 7 Conclusions and Implications for Economic Policy and the Modern Day;
