Freedom and Growth: The Rise of States and Markets in Europe

By S. Epstein. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints☆ (2017, background): “Economic historians have long pointed out that markets in medieval and early modern Europe were fragmented (Heckscher, 1955; Epstein, 2000).”
Size and dynastic decline: The principal-agent problem in late imperial China, 1700–1850 (2014, background): “4 It is now widely accepted that in early modern Europe, absolutist states such as France and Spain actually taxed less than England and the Netherlands due to institutional fragmentation (Hoffman and Rosenthal, 1997; Epstein, 2000; Dincecco, 2011).”
The Economy of the Early Roman Empire (2006, background): “Thus, in terms of Polanyi’s (1977) three ways to organize the economic functions of a society, we infer that medieval economic life was dominated by redistribution and reciprocity, with urban “islands” of exchange-oriented market activity (Pirenne, 1925; Bloch, 1961; Epstein, 2000).”
From Baghdad to London: Unraveling Urban Development in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, 800–1800 (2013, background): “In fact, many European states adopted mercantilist policies, actively stimulating exports and building up a trading empire (Epstein, 2000; Hohenberg & Lees, 1995).”
The ‘reversal of fortune’ thesis and the compression of history: Perspectives from African and comparative economic history (2008, neutral): “This 2For a searching critique of aspects of North (and co-authors’) accounts of British exceptionalism, see Epstein, 2000.”