The Invisible Hand? offers a radical departure from the conventional wisdom of economists
and economic historians, by showing that'factor markets' and the economies dominated by …

How did representative institutions become the central organs of governance in Western
Europe? What enabled this distinctive form of political organization and collective action that …

When the Dutch Celebrate their king's birthday—King's Day, on April 27, a national holiday—
they don't dance in the streets or drink themselves into a stupor (although that can also …

By exploring the uniquely dense urban network of the Low Countries, Janna Coomans
debunks the myth of medieval cities as apathetic towards filth and disease. Based on new …

Mortgage markets in developing economies, both past and present, are often confined to
social networks between private individuals. The inadequate registration of ownership of …

A main instrument for better understanding the formation of institutions, and explaining the
differences in their long-run development between periods and societies, would be to use …

Marx's chapters on “primitive accumulation” identify two putative sites of capitalism's
emergence: sixteenth-century expropriation of English peasants and Dutch-led commercial …

Recent historiography argues that the legal autonomy of municipal governments created the
necessary conditions for successful commercial transactions and economic growth in certain …

Our article aims to detect differences in behaviour towards the capital and land market of
households of different sizes and levels of income. Participation in markets for real estate …

This chapter examines a sector of the seventeenth-century credit market in which a specific
group in English rural society, who held real property by copyhold of inheritance tenure …