Long Road to the Industrial Revolution

Jan Luiten van Zanden (1955) is professor of economic history at Utrecht University and senior researcher at the International Institute of Social History. He has published widely on the economic history of the Netherlands, Western Europe, and Indonesia.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: The Long Road to the Industrial RevolutionPart OneMedieval FoundationsIntroducing the Problem: The Emergence of Efficient Institutions in the Middle AgesWhy the European Economy Expanded Rapidly in a Period of Political Fragmentation Book Production as a Mirror of Emerging European Knowledge Economy (with Eltjo Buringh)Part TwoThe Little Divergence within EuropeIntroducing the Problem: the Little Divergence within Europe, 1400-18004. Girlpower. The European Marriage Pattern and Labour Markets in the North Sea Tegion in the Late Medieval Period (with Tine de Moor)Part ThreeCommon Workmen, Philosophers and the Birth of a European Knowledge EconomyIntroducing the Problem: The Birth of a European Knowledge Economy5. The Human Capital of the Common Workmen: European Skill Premium in the a Global Perspective6. The Philosophers and the Revolution of the Printing PressPart FourTowards the Dual Revolution: State Formation and Modern Economic Growth7. State Formation and Citizenship: The Dutch Republic between Medieval Communes and Modern Nation States (with Maarten Prak).8. The Emergence of Modern Economic Growth in the North Sea RegionPart FiveTwo Great Divergences9. The Arab World, China, and JapanConclusion: ‘A million mutinies’Appendix One. Further experiments with the Cobb Douglas production function: Italy and Western EuropeAppendix Two. Estimating Chinese GDP per capita in the eighteenth century

...una obra de sumo interes para todos los historiadores económicos e interesados en el desarrollo económico, muy ambiciosa, que entreña la consagracíon definitiva de un gran maestro...Enrique Llopis Agelán, Universidad Complutense de Madrid(Investigaciones de Historia Económica, 2011: 19, 189-193