This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the

This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.

This edited collection, first published in 1991, focuses on the commercial relations, marketing structures and development of consumption that accompanied early

In discussions on European pre-modern economic growth, the role of individual freedom and of the state has loomed large. This book examines whether different ki

Why Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and th