"For over a century now, historians have debated the causes of the lagged industrialization of the Dutch economy during the nineteenth century. To this debate, Trials of Convergence brings the analytical perspective of prices, factor costs and the functioning of markets. Its critical insight is...

"This book focuses on the history of the WIC in Brazil in order to study the role of lobbying for political decision making in the seventeenth- century Dutch Republic, and argues that lobbying was the primary tool for people to implement, shape, and maintain institutions. Considering this...