"For over a century now, historians have debated the causes of the lagged industrialization of the Dutch economy during …

industrial economy. Between 1780 and 1914, the Netherlands went through a double transition. Its economy--which, in the words of … neocorporatist sociopolitical structure that would characterize the Netherlands in the twentieth century. Analyzing both processes … with a focus on institutional change, this book argues that the economic and political development of the Netherlands can …

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …