Debates on industrialisation and economic growth in the Netherlands
Date
2014-06-15
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Publisher
International Institute of Social History
Abstract
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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CITATION: De Jong, H. & Van Zanden, J. L. 2014. Debates on industrialisation and economic growth in the Netherlands. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 11(2):85–110, doi:10.18352/tseg.133.
The original publication is available at https://www.tseg.nl
The original publication is available at https://www.tseg.nl
Keywords
Industrialization -- Netherlands, Netherlands -- Economic conditions
Citation
De Jong, H. & Van Zanden, J. L. 2014. Debates on industrialisation and economic growth in the Netherlands. Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis, 11(2):85–110, doi:10.18352/tseg.133.