EUR.TRADE: Trading Costs, the Expansion of Trade and Economic

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Name: Meir Kohn
Email: mkohn@dartmouth.edu
Institution: Dartmouth College, Department of Economics

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Title: Trading Costs, the Expansion of Trade and Economic Growth in
Pre-Industrial Europe

Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/00-05.pdf

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Language: English

Abstract:
In pre-industrial Europe, growth was driven by the expansion of
trade, and the expansion of trade was driven by falling trading
costs. This paper discusses the mechanisms linking these processes -
profit-seeking behavior by merchants, changes in the organization of
production, technological progress, and urbanization. It then reviews
the fluctuations in European economic growth between 1000 and 1600
and argues that these can best be understood in terms of changing
trading costs.

Bibliography: Kohn, Meir. "Trading costs, the expansion of trade,
and economic growth in pre-industrial Europe." Working Paper, 2001.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/00-05.PDF

Subject: D
Geographical Area: 4
Country/Region:
Time Period: 3

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