Intro -- Public Finance of the Dutch Republic in Comparative: Perspective The Viability of an Early Modern Federal State (1570s-1795) -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Map -- General Introduction -- The Question at Stake -- Possible Answers -- The...

This study uncovers the institutional framework of markets for 'renten', which allowed large segments of the public and private sectors in late medieval Holland to accumulate capital, and thus functioned as capital markets that enabled economic development.

In Globalization and the Colonial Origins of the Great Divergence the intercontinental trade of the Dutch East India Company and its effects on living standards in a number of its colonies are analysed to shed light on several major debates in economic history.

In the 1630s the Netherlands was gripped by tulipmania: a speculative fever unprecedented in scale and, as popular history would have it, folly. We all know the outline of the story-how otherwise sensible merchants, nobles, and artisans spent all they had (and much that they didn't) on tulip...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- One Worldly Goods and the Transformations of Objectivity -- Two An Information Economy -- Three Reformations Tempered: In Pursuit of Natural Facts -- Four Commerce and Medicine in Amsterdam -- Five Truths and Untruths from the Indies -- Six Medicine and...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Research and Businees in the Chemical Industry -- 2. From Works Laboratories to Centralised Research -- 3. Expansion and Fiversification: R&D after the Second World War -- 4. The Large Leap Forward: Redefining the Role of R&D...