EUR.TRADE: Cost of Transportation in Pre-Industrial Europe

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

Co-author: none

Title: The Cost of Transportation in Pre-Industrial Europe

Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/01-02.pdf

By mail:
Department of Economics
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

Language: English

Abstract:
In pre-industrial Europe, rising productivity both in agriculture and
in industry depended on the expansion of trade, and the expansion of
trade depended in turn on the reduction of trading costs. An
important component of trading costs (for some goods the most
important) was the cost of transportation. This had two elements: the
cost of predation and the cost of carriage. This paper examines these
two elements and how they changed over time. It also discusses the
relative importance in lowering the cost of transportation,
organizational change and technological progress.

Bibliography: Kohn, Meir. "The costs of transportation in
pre-industrial Europe." Working Paper, January 2001.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/01-02.pdf

Subject: Y
Geographical Area: 4
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Time Period: 3
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