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TSEG (Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis) - The Low Countries Journal of Social and Economic History, is het Nederlands-Vlaamse vaktijdschrift op het gebied van de sociale en economische geschiedenis

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  • Dutch economic historians have long debated the supposed economic ‘retardation’ of the Netherlands in the nineteenth century

  • Scholars have focused especially on determining the exact starting date of the country’s industrialization, the explanations behind the country’s relative economic decline, as well as whether economic growth was balanced across economic sectors

  • Van Zanden and Van Riel convincingly showed that there was economic growth before 1840, that it slowed down afterwards, and that industrialization in the Netherlands started to take off by the 1860s

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Dutch economic historians have long debated the supposed economic ‘retardation’ of the Netherlands in the nineteenth century. Scholars have focused especially on determining the exact starting date of the country’s industrialization, the explanations behind the country’s relative economic decline, as well as whether economic growth was balanced across economic sectors. In Strictures of Inheritance, published in 2004, Jan Luiten van Zanden and Arthur van Riel had ‘closed’ several of these debates.[1] The book synthesized a huge research project to reconstruct Dutch GDP during the nineteenth century.

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