Economic policy in Europe since the late Middle Ages : the visible hand and the fortune of cities
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Economic policy in Europe since the late Middle Ages : the visible hand and the fortune of cities
Leicester University Press , Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1992
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Market forces - Adam Smith's "invisible hand" - have never operated unimpeded in any economic system. As this book shows, even the successful merchant communities of early modern Europe were directed by the conscious plans of individuals and associations; the archetypal markets were imperfect. Pressure groups, city and state bureaucracies, princes and kings all sought to influence economic activity. This book is an account by leading European economic and urban historians of the methods these actors used and of the way they influenced each other.
Table of Contents
- The visible hand and the fortunes of cities, a historiographic introduction, Herman Diederiks and Paul M. Hohenberg
- urban policy or personal government - the involvement of the urban elite in the economy of Leiden at the end of the Middle Ages, Hanno Brand
- holders of power and economic activity in German merchant towns in the 16th and 17th centuries, Pierre Jeannin
- urban economy and industrial development in the early modern period - Nimes in the 17th and 18th centuries, Line Teisseyre-Sallmann
- structural crisis of the economy and political leadership, the example of Cologne in the 18th century, Dietrich Ebeling
- capital policies of the Hohenzollerns in Berlin (1650-1800), Helga Schulz
- municipal oligarchies and merchant elites as separate social groups - comparisons on either side of the Franco-Belgian border, Philippe Guignet
- resistance to change - elites, municipal government and the state in the development of the city of Naples (1750-1870), John A. Davis
- fingerprints of an urban elite, the case of a Dutch city in the 19th century, Pim Kooi
- foresight is not the essence of government, Jan van den Noort
- the city council and the economic elite - Haarlem 1890-1920, Boudien de Vries
- from hidden hand to public intervention - land use and zoning strategies in the liberal and post-liberal city (1875-1914), Michael Wagenaar
- the state, the elite and the market - the "visible hand" in the British industrial city system, R.J. Morris
- managing the market-regulating the city - urban control in the 19th-century UK, Richard Rodger.
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