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An Economic History of Europe
This concise and accessible introduction to European economic history focusses on
the interplay between the development of institutions and the generation and diffu-
sion of knowledge-based technologies. The author challenges the view that European
economic history before the Industrial Revolution was constrained by population
growth outstripping available resources. He argues instead that the limiting factor was
the knowledge needed for technological progress, but also that Europe was unique in
developing a scientific culture and institutions which were the basis for the unprece-
dented technological progress and economic growth of the eenth and twentieth
centuries. Simple explanatory concepts are used to explain growth and stagnation as
well as the convergence of e over time whilst text boxes, figures, an extensive
glossary and online exercises enable students to develop prehensive understand-
ing of the subject. This is the only textbook students will need to understand Europe’s
unique economic development and its global context.
k a r l g u n n a r p e r s s o n is a professor in the Department of Economics at the
University of Copenhagen, where he has been parative economic his-
tory and the history of globalization over the last thirty years. He is the author of Pre-
Industrial Economic Growth:anization and Technological Progress in Europe
(1988) and Grain Markets in Europe 1500–1900:ÂIntegration and Deregulation (1999).
new approaches to economic and social history
Edited for the Economic History Society by
nigel goose, University of Hertfordshire
larry neal, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
New Approaches to Economic and Social History is an important new textbook series
published in association with the Economic History Society. It provides concise but
authoritative surveys of major themes and issues in world economic and social history
from the