Progress and poverty in early modern Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8049192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert C Allen (0000-0002-0163-5337, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 403-443 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Economic History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0117 • E-ISSN: 1468-0289 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2003.00257.x |
| OpenAlex | W2149180139 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 103 |
| References cited | 104 |
An econometric model of economic development is estimated with data from leading European countries between 1300 and 1800. The model explores the impact of population, enclosure, empire, representative government, technology, and literacy on urbanization, agricultural productivity, proto‐industry, and the real wage. Simulations show that the main factors leading to economic success in north‐western Europe were the growth of American and Asian commerce and, especially, the innovations underlying the export of the new draperies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The enclosure of the open fields, representative government, and the spread of literacy did not play major roles
Econometric model · Western europe · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies
The British Revolution in Global Perspective, de Robert Allen
Social inequality in mortality in rural Spain (1860-2010)
The Decline of Serfdom and the Origins of the ‘Little Divergence’
A New Equilibrium? Economy and Society, 1375 to 1400
Reaction and Regulation, 1349 to 1380
Calculations in Table 7.3
The Biological Standard of Living in Europe from the Late Iron Age to the Little Ice Age
A Mystery within an Enigma. The Economy 1355 to 1375
Old Problems, New Approaches
Injustice and Revolt
Conclusion
The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Europe
Das französische Ancien Régime als Eigentümergesellschaft?
Trade and empire
The Origins of Globalization
Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness
The Black Death and the origins of the 'Great Divergence' across Europe, 1300-1600
The biological standard of living in Europe during the last two millennia
Institutions, Human Capital, and Development
Human Capital and Industrialization
Information Technology and Economic Change
Making Social Spending Work
Tren Maya y gentrificación
Human capital formation in the long run
Neither the elite, nor the mass. The rise of intermediate human capital during the French industrialization process
Sailing away from Malthus
Commons and the standard of living debate in Spain, 1860–1930
Primary education and economic growth in nineteenth-century France
Measuring Ancient Inequality
The Civilization of Fashion
Every Woman Counts
Quantifying Quantitative Literacy
Crédito, vino y usura
Industrial activities and primary schooling in early nineteenth-century France
From Convergence to Divergence
Assessing the Educational Elite
Cities, Constitutions, and Sovereign Borrowing in Europe, 1274–1785
Real wages around the world
Extractive Peripheries in Europe
Education and Catch-up in the Industrial Revolution
Shared Patterns in Long-Term Dynamics of Commons as Institutions for Collective Action
On the economic importance of the slave plantation complex to the British economy during the eighteenth century
The unanimity rule and religious fractionalisation in the Polish-Lithuanian Republic
Knowledge Formation and the Great Divergence between China and Europe
Marriages are Made in Kitchens
The spectre of historical crop losses
The Malthusian intermezzo
Global Disparities Since 1800
Regional growth with spatial dependence
The Central Uplands of Buchan – a distinctive agricultural zone in the thirteenth century
Technology and survival in preindustrial England
The Protestant Reading Ethic and Variation in Its Effects
America, the Atlantic, and Global Consumer Demand, 1500-1800
Why Are We Worried About Income? Nearly Everything that Matters is Converging
Awakening latent human capital
Real wages once more
Trapped by Nature
Common Lands and Economic Development in Spain
Sweet Business
Two Stories, One Fate
Desigualdad Regional en Castilla en El Siglo Xviii
Estudiar la desigualdad
Prices in Toledo (Spain)
Goths and Vandals” or “Civilized” Farmers? Common Lands and Agricultural Productivity in Early-Twentieth-Century Spain
Measuring Away the Importance of Institutions
Profits du commerce intercontinental et croissance dans la France du xviiie siècle
The Cost of Hegemony
The Economic Effects of Long-Term Climate Change
Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth
Institutional Reforms, Financial Development and Sovereign Debt
Charting the “Rise of the West”
Flow of Ideas
Origins of Europe’s north-south divide
Schools without a law
Inequality and education in pre-industrial economies
Skill choice and skill complementarity in eighteenth century England
Poverty in Germany from the Black Death until the Beginning of Industrialization
Institutions, wages, and inequality
Economic growth in the Roman Mediterranean world
Human capital and earnings in eighteenth-century Castile
Labour productivity and human capital in the European maritime sector of the eighteenth century
Change and persistence in the Age of Modernization
The Western European marriage pattern and economic development
Agricultural specialization and height in ancient and medieval Europe
The Wheels of Change
Why Did the Netherlands Develop So Early? The Legacy of the Brethren of the Common Life
Determining the Industrial Revolution
The evolution of markets in early modern Europe, 1350-1800
Two worlds of female labour
Farmers at the heart of the ‘human capital revolution’? Decomposing the numeracy increase in early modern Europe
Portuguese living standards, 1720–1980, in European comparison
The business history of the preindustrial world
The 'long' sixteenth century
The uneven expansion of education in developing regions
Why the industrial revolution was British
The great divergence and the economics of printing
The lure of aggregates and the pitfalls of the patriarchal perspective
Prices and real wages in seventeenth-century Madrid
Late marriage as a contributor to the industrial revolution in England
English and Scottish overseas trade, 1300-16001
An Historical Geography of Europe
Slavery, Atlantic Trade and the British Economy, 1660–1800
The slave and colonial trade in France just before the Revolution
Literacy and the Social Order
The First Modern Economy
American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650
ReOrient
Enclosure and the Yeoman
World Accumulation 1492–1789
Growth in a Traditional Society
The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe c.1200–1815
English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250–1450
The Rise of the Western World
Continuity, Chance and Change
The Origins of Technology-Skill Complementarity
Economic structure and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1300-1800
The Great Divergence
The population history of England, 1541-1871
The long twentieth century
Determinants of Economic Growth
Population in History
Atlas of world population history
European Urbanization, 1500-1800
The Great Divergence
Fiscal Crises, Liberty, and Representative Government 1450-1789
The Brenner Debate
Schooling in Renaissance Italy
European Marriage Patterns in Perspective
Capitalism and Slavery
Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England
The Gifts of Athena
Freedom and Growth
The Slave Trade and British Capital Formation in the Eighteenth Century
Imperialism and the Rise and Decline of the British Economy, 1688-1989
On the Road Again with Arthur Young
The Development of Irrigation in Provence, 1700-1860
The Fishers of Men
Commons Sense
The Output of the British Woolen Industry in the Eighteenth Century
Constitutions and Commitment
Agricultural Supply During the Industrial Revolution
The Diffusion of the New Husbandry in Northern France, 1815–1840
The Legacies of Literacy
The History of Literacy in Spain
The impact of the Corn Laws just prior to repeal
The Great Divergence in European Wages and Prices from the Middle Ages to the First World War
International Comparisons of Real Product, 1820–1990
The efficiency of the mesta
The curse of Moctezuma
Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914
Seven Centuries of Building Wages
British Economic Growth, 1688-1959
The Medieval Economy and Society
The Sources of Economic Growth in the United States and the Alternatives Before Us
Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914. Two Paths to the Twentieth Century
The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800
Levels of Illiteracy in England, 1530–1730
Agricultural Fluctuations in Europe from the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-Industrial Europe
Agricultural Fluctuation in Europe. From the Thirteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
The World Economy
The Case of the Impoverished Sophisticate
Life Under Pressure
Proto-industrialization
Simulating the Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution
Managing the Commons
Spanish Agriculture
Some Economic Evidence of Declining Population in the Later Middle Ages
The 'revolt of the early modernists' and the 'first modern economy
Plague, Population and the English Economy, 1348-1530
Literacy and Culture in Early Modern Castile
A Simple Model of London's Importance in Changing English Society and Economy 1650-1750
The Dutch Rural Economy in the Golden Age, 1500-1700
European Economic Development
Spanish Agriculture
Tracking the agricultural revolution in England
English Foreign Trade, 1660-1700
Urban Growth and Agricultural Change
Literacy and Social Development in the West
The Political Foundations of Modern Economic Growth
The Chronology of English Enclosure
The Chronology of English Enclosure, 1500-1914
Path dependency, or why Britain became an industrialized and urbanized economy long before France
Output Growth and the British Industrial Revolution
Literacy and the Social Order. Reading and Writing in Tudor and Stuart England
Proto-Industrialization
American Treasure and the Price Revolution in Spain, 1501-1650
Commercial Relations between Spain and Spanish America in the Era of Free Trade, 1778-1796
Madrid and the Spanish Economy, 1560-1850
The Economic History of Britain since 1700
The Unmaking of the Mediterranean Trade Hegemony
Alphabétisation et structure sociale en Pologne au XVIe siècle
| Unique citing works | 103 |
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| Citations per year | 4,68 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 101 |