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This book explores how the institution of privilege and liberty shaped early modern economic development in France between 1650 and 1820.
Author : Jeff Horn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107046289
This book explores how the institution of privilege and liberty shaped early modern economic development in France between 1650 and 1820.
Author : Jeff Horn
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 23,10 MB
Release : 2015
Category :
ISBN : 9781316234525
Privilege has long been understood as the constitutional basis of Ancien Régime France, legalising the provision of a variety of rights, powers and exemptions to some, whilst denying them to others. In this fascinating new study however, Jeff Horn reveals that Bourbon officials utilized privilege as an instrument of economic development, freeing some sectors of the economy from pre-existing privileges and regulations, while protecting others. He explores both government policies and the innovations of entrepreneurs, workers, inventors and customers to uncover the lived experience of economic d.
Author : Jeff Horn (Historian)
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2015
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 9781316247754
Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,37 MB
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521893800
For a generation, the history of the ancien régime has been written from the perspective of the Annales school, with its emphasis on the role of long-term economic and cultural factors in shaping the development of early modern France. In this detailed 1995 study, Henry Heller challenges such a paradigm and assembles a huge range of information about technical innovation and ideas of improvement in sixteenth-century France. Emphasising the role of state intervention in the economy, the development of science and technology, and recent research into early modern proto-industrialisation, Heller counters notions of a France mired in an archaic, determinist mentalité. Despite the tides of religious fanaticism and seigneurial reaction, the period of the religious wars saw a surprising degree of economic, technological and scientific innovation, making possible the consolidation of capitalism in French society during the reign of Henri IV.
Author : Francois Caron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317829271
First published in 1979, this richly documented study of French development from the early nineteenth century to the present day is of particular importance to students both of history and economics. Francis Caron moves as confidently through the fields of current economic policy and modern economics as he does through the traditional subject matter of French nineteenth-century economic history. His book incorporates the mass of research that has appeared in monograph and periodical form in recent years, making it accessible for the first time to the English-speaking reader.
Author : Jeff Horn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 44,30 MB
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1316240193
Privilege has long been understood as the constitutional basis of Ancien Régime France, legalizing the provision of a variety of rights, powers and exemptions to some, whilst denying them to others. In this fascinating new study however, Jeff Horn reveals that Bourbon officials utilized privilege as an instrument of economic development, freeing some sectors of the economy from pre-existing privileges and regulations, while protecting others. He explores both government policies and the innovations of entrepreneurs, workers, inventors and customers to uncover the lived experience of economic development from the Fronde to the Restoration. He shows how, influenced by Enlightenment thought, the regime increasingly resorted to concepts of liberty to defend privilege as a policy tool. The book offers important new insights into debates about the impact of privilege on early industrialization, comparative economic development and the outbreak of the French Revolution.
Author : Victoria N Bateman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 24,64 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1317321723
This is the first study to analyze a wide spread of price data to determine whether market development led to economic growth in the early modern period.
Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 21,36 MB
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134604424
This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.
Author : Frank C. Spooner
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674458406
This volume makes available the first English version of L' conomie mondiale et les frappes mon taires en France, 1493-1680, Frank C. Spooner's original and distinguished contribution to economic and monetary history. Generously illustrated with maps and graphs, and abridged by the author, this study introduces the English-reading audience to the methodological approaches of the modern school of French economic history. In this edition, Spooner covers an additional forty-five years not included in his original work: the period 1680-1725 which marks the prelude to the great monetary reform and consolidation of France in 1726. In addition to bringing the reader up to date on his continuing research, he presents a number of important conclusions concerning this economic era. Drawing from his vast insight into French monetary history and his thorough technical knowledge of French coinage and minds of the period, the author maps the historical and spatial perspectives of the two and a half centuries when France experienced successive periods of inflation as bullion, copper, and credit emerged into the forefront of economic affairs. To illustrate the way in which the sequence of these periods affected the structure of the French economy, he discusses how the relative supply and demand of the metals used in varying degrees as a medium of exchange increased the demand for the metal and influenced the credit system. Credit thus made a special contribution in coordinating and adjusting the various inconsistencies in the production and circulation of the different metals. Throughout his study, Spooner attributes an important role to money as a significant factor in economic change and development in early modern Europe and focuses on the relationship between the supply of money and the level and pattern of economic activity.
Author : John J. McCusker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052178249X
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