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Name:  Marcel Boldorf
Email:  boldorf at rumms.uni-mannheim.de
Institution:  Universitaet Mannheim

Co-author:

Title:  Institutional barriers to economic development: The Silesian linen
proto-industry (17th to 19th century)

Internet Address of abstracted work:

By mail:
Dr. Marcel Boldorf
Universitaet Mannheim
Seminargebaeude A 5
D- 68131 Mannheim, Germany

Language: English

Abstract:
This discussion paper analyses the commercial relationships between home
producers and city-based merchants within the framework of the theory of
institutional economics. For the regions, which lagged behind the
West-European industrializing countries, it was important at which moment
the institutional barriers of preindustrial times were removed. The
Silesian case shows that the lack of institutional modernization could have
negative effects on the development of the region. In contrast to the
Western development, Silesia de-industrialized during the 19th century.

Bibliography:  Boldorf, Marcel.  "Institutional barriers to economic
development: The Silesian linen proto-industry (17th to 19th century)."
Discussion paper, Mannheim 1999.

Subject:  D
Geographical Area:  4
Country/Region:  Silesia
Time Period:  5, 6, 7
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