War and the Birth of the Nation State
- 1 March 1973
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 33 (1) , 203-221
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700076531
Abstract
The rise of the nation-state is assigned by most historians a central role in the economic growth of Europe. Most recently Douglass North and Robert Thomas have argued that sustained economic growth was made possible only by institutional changes which, themselves, were a consequence of the rise of the nationstate. Thus it is clear that a complete model of the economic growth of Europe will have to account for the rise of the nation-state. That is.the humble task of this paper.Keywords
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