The jump‐start of the Holland economy during the late‐medieval crisis, c.1350–c.15001
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- 1 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in The Economic History Review
- Vol. 57 (3) , 503-532
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2004.00286.x
Abstract
Byc.1500 the Holland economy had already acquired modern traits, as witnessed by the occupational structure and the urbanization rate. This article tries to explain the remarkable development of the Holland economy between 1350 and 1500, linking it to the specific occupation history of the region in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. The combination of high wages in this frontier economy with increasing difficulties in arable agriculture as a result of the subsidence of peat soils, and the absence of feudal restrictions in production and marketing, resulted in the rise of capital‐intensive industries, benefiting from converging wages and increasing market integration.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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