Policies and Power Plays

Since the work of Oscar Gelderblom, city governments are increasingly acknowledged for their role in shaping economic institutions. This article aims to understand what informed their economic policies. It focuses on the fifteenth-century Deventer city government and its response to the relocation of the Hanse’s permanent trading post (the kontor) from Bruges to Deventer in 1451/1452. By analyzing the government’s economic policies in their economic and political context, I argue that they primarily reflect the local balance of power among different interest groups. All in all, when deciding on their economic policies, the government’s major concern was to serve the economic interests of groups whose support it needed for remaining in power

Physics · Political science · Power (physics · Globalization and political ideologies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Medieval Literature and History

• Cities of Commerce, Cities of Constraints. International Trade, Government Institutions and the Law of Commerce in Later Medieval Bruges and the Burgundian State

  Open Access•Jan Dumolyn, Bart Lambert•TSEG/ Low Countries Journal of…•2014

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• Reconsidering the Early Modern Urban Economy

  Robert S Duplessis, Martha Howell et al.•Past & Present•1982

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