Peer Vries
Biographic Data
| ID | 5820248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peer Vries |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peer |
| FAMILY NAME | Vries |
| SIGNATURE | VRIES P |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Institute of Social History |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Patrick O’Brien on industrialization, little Britain and the wider world
Patrick O’Brien has dedicated most of his career to studying British economic history, focusing on the Industrial Revolution, its antecedents, characteristics and consequences. He has always paid attention to long-term developments and never confined himself to strictly economic aspects. From the late 1990s onward, he increasingly turned ‘global’. His importance for global history cannot be overstated. His essay in this issue presents the outcome…
The Prospects of Global History
Global history seems to be the history for our times. Huge syntheses such as the seven-volume Cambridge World History or the six-volume A History of the World suggest the field has come to fruition. Robert Moore, in his contribution to the book under review, The Prospect of Global History , is quite confident in this respect: if there is a single reason for “the rise of world history”, it is “the collapse of every alternative paradigm” (pp. 84–85…
A Market for Ideas? A Review of Joel Mokyr’s A culture of growth. The Origins of the Modern Economy
No abstract
Inevitable decline? A review of Bas van Bavel, The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined since ad 500 (Oxford, 2016)
He is best known for his Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500-1600 (Oxford, 2010) and has now vastly extended the scale and scope of his research with this highly ambitious The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined since AD 500. The title of the book is somewhat misleading, in two respects. It suggests that the book is about market economies since AD 500, but, as the author himself explicitly …
Escaping poverty
One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and than the rest of the world? Many prominent scholars discussed this question and came up with many different answers. This book provides a systematic ana…
Decline of the West − Rise of the East
Why the West rules – for now
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The California School and Beyond
In this article the autor presents a description, analysis and evaluation of the fundamentally new interpretation of the economic history of the early modern world that is defended by authors who collectively have become known as the California School, the most important among them being Kenneth Pomeranz, Roy Bin Wong, Andre Gunder Frank and Jack Goldstone. He in particular analyses their claim that in the period from roughly 1400 to 1800 the mos…
A. G. Frank and the Greatness of the East
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The Study of Contrasts across Europe
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Reply to Professor Landes
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Should we really ReOrient
Andre Gunder Frank's latest work, ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age definitely is a book with a message. Its author sets out to challenge what according to him are the received opinions in historiography and social science on the making of the modern world. He does so relentlessly and overturns the ideas of such influential scholars as Marx, Weber, Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel and Wallerstein. As a matter of fact, of almost everybody who has …
Culture, Clocks, and Comparative Costs David Landes on the Wealth of the West and the Poverty of the Rest
It would be hard to find a more fundamental question in economic history than the one professor Landes asks in his latest book: why are some nations so rich and some so poor? To every economist and economic historian analysing this problem is an immense intellectual challenge. Landes however does not merely tackle it from a strictly intellectual perspective. He also hopes that by writing the book under review he can contribute to an answer and th…
Reply to Professor Frank
I thank Professor Frank for his swift reaction. I have considered his critiques and reservations seriously and will attempt to use them constructively, just as he did mine. For the sake of convenience I answer his comments in the order in which he has presented them. Space does not permit me to go into all his remarks extensively
Essay review
So, what is Europe? - What is Europe?—A four-volume text published by Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE, UK, 1995, Each volume, paperback, £12.99. - 1. The History of the Idea of Europe, Kevin Wilson & Jan van der Dussen (Eds). ISBN 0-415-12415-8. - 2. Aspects of European Cultural Diversity, Monica Shelley & Margaret Winck (Eds). ISBN 0-415-12417-4. - 3. European Democratic Culture, Alain-Marc Rieu & Gérard Duprat (Eds). English edit…
The California School and Beyond
In this article the autor presents a description, analysis and evaluation of the fundamentally new interpretation of the economic history of the early modern world that is defended by authors who collectively have become known as the California School, the most important among them being Kenneth Pomeranz, Roy Bin Wong, Andre Gunder Frank and Jack Goldstone. He in particular analyses their claim that in the period from roughly 1400 to 1800 the mos…
Should we really ReOrient
Andre Gunder Frank's latest work, ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age definitely is a book with a message. Its author sets out to challenge what according to him are the received opinions in historiography and social science on the making of the modern world. He does so relentlessly and overturns the ideas of such influential scholars as Marx, Weber, Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel and Wallerstein. As a matter of fact, of almost everybody who has …
The Prospects of Global History
Global history seems to be the history for our times. Huge syntheses such as the seven-volume Cambridge World History or the six-volume A History of the World suggest the field has come to fruition. Robert Moore, in his contribution to the book under review, The Prospect of Global History , is quite confident in this respect: if there is a single reason for “the rise of world history”, it is “the collapse of every alternative paradigm” (pp. 84–85…
Culture, Clocks, and Comparative Costs David Landes on the Wealth of the West and the Poverty of the Rest
It would be hard to find a more fundamental question in economic history than the one professor Landes asks in his latest book: why are some nations so rich and some so poor? To every economist and economic historian analysing this problem is an immense intellectual challenge. Landes however does not merely tackle it from a strictly intellectual perspective. He also hopes that by writing the book under review he can contribute to an answer and th…
Essay review
So, what is Europe? - What is Europe?—A four-volume text published by Routledge, 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE, UK, 1995, Each volume, paperback, £12.99. - 1. The History of the Idea of Europe, Kevin Wilson & Jan van der Dussen (Eds). ISBN 0-415-12415-8. - 2. Aspects of European Cultural Diversity, Monica Shelley & Margaret Winck (Eds). ISBN 0-415-12417-4. - 3. European Democratic Culture, Alain-Marc Rieu & Gérard Duprat (Eds). English edit…
Should we really ReOrient
Andre Gunder Frank's latest work, ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age definitely is a book with a message. Its author sets out to challenge what according to him are the received opinions in historiography and social science on the making of the modern world. He does so relentlessly and overturns the ideas of such influential scholars as Marx, Weber, Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel and Wallerstein. As a matter of fact, of almost everybody who has …
Culture, Clocks, and Comparative Costs David Landes on the Wealth of the West and the Poverty of the Rest
It would be hard to find a more fundamental question in economic history than the one professor Landes asks in his latest book: why are some nations so rich and some so poor? To every economist and economic historian analysing this problem is an immense intellectual challenge. Landes however does not merely tackle it from a strictly intellectual perspective. He also hopes that by writing the book under review he can contribute to an answer and th…
Reply to Professor Frank
I thank Professor Frank for his swift reaction. I have considered his critiques and reservations seriously and will attempt to use them constructively, just as he did mine. For the sake of convenience I answer his comments in the order in which he has presented them. Space does not permit me to go into all his remarks extensively
A. G. Frank and the Greatness of the East
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Study of Contrasts across Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reply to Professor Landes
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The California School and Beyond
In this article the autor presents a description, analysis and evaluation of the fundamentally new interpretation of the economic history of the early modern world that is defended by authors who collectively have become known as the California School, the most important among them being Kenneth Pomeranz, Roy Bin Wong, Andre Gunder Frank and Jack Goldstone. He in particular analyses their claim that in the period from roughly 1400 to 1800 the mos…
Why the West rules – for now
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Escaping poverty
One of the biggest debates in economic history deals with the Great Divergence. How can we explain that at a certain moment in time (the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries) a certain part of the world (the West) escaped from general poverty and became much richer than it had ever been before and than the rest of the world? Many prominent scholars discussed this question and came up with many different answers. This book provides a systematic ana…
Decline of the West − Rise of the East
A Market for Ideas? A Review of Joel Mokyr’s A culture of growth. The Origins of the Modern Economy
No abstract
Inevitable decline? A review of Bas van Bavel, The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined since ad 500 (Oxford, 2016)
He is best known for his Manors and Markets: Economy and Society in the Low Countries, 500-1600 (Oxford, 2010) and has now vastly extended the scale and scope of his research with this highly ambitious The Invisible Hand? How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined since AD 500. The title of the book is somewhat misleading, in two respects. It suggests that the book is about market economies since AD 500, but, as the author himself explicitly …
The Prospects of Global History
Global history seems to be the history for our times. Huge syntheses such as the seven-volume Cambridge World History or the six-volume A History of the World suggest the field has come to fruition. Robert Moore, in his contribution to the book under review, The Prospect of Global History , is quite confident in this respect: if there is a single reason for “the rise of world history”, it is “the collapse of every alternative paradigm” (pp. 84–85…
Patrick O’Brien on industrialization, little Britain and the wider world
Patrick O’Brien has dedicated most of his career to studying British economic history, focusing on the Industrial Revolution, its antecedents, characteristics and consequences. He has always paid attention to long-term developments and never confined himself to strictly economic aspects. From the late 1990s onward, he increasingly turned ‘global’. His importance for global history cannot be overstated. His essay in this issue presents the outcome…
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