Karl Gunnar Persson was Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and taught comparative economic history and globalization studies over five decades. His works include Pre-Industrial Economic Growth (1988) and Grain Markets in Europe, 1500–1900 (2000). Paul Sharp is a professor of economics at the University of Southern Denmark and an editor for academic journals such as the Scandinavian Economic History Review. He is the co-author of A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry (2019). Markus Lampe is professor of economic and social history at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is the co-author of A Land of Milk and Butter: How Elites Created the Modern Danish Dairy Industry (2019).

• Introduction; 1. The making of Europe; 2. Europe from obscurity to economic recovery; 3. Population and resource constraints; 4. The nature and extent of economic growth in the pre-industrial epoch; 5. Institutions and efficiency; 6. Knowledge, technology transfer and convergence; 7. Money, credit and banking; 8. Trade and globalization; 9. Factor markets and globalization; 10. What (should) governments do; 11. Inequalities between individuals, households and nations; Appendix; Glossary.

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