Add to ORKGDrawing on long-term evidence for Italian and Dutch cities, this paper aims to shed some light on the long-standing debate about the nature and consequences of the craft guild system by analyzing the e↵ect that craft guilds could have had in the economic performance of the pre-industrial city. In order to assess this impact, this paper exploits variation across a sample of 61 Italian and Dutch cities be-tween the 12th and the 19th centuries in the number of craft guilds per one thousand inhabitants, or guild density, a variable which roughly captures the intensity of craft guilds control over the local manufac-turing industry. Our proxy for local economic development is growth in city size. Our preliminary results do not suggest the existen...
In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dep...
This paper discusses Gelderblom’s hypothesis that urban competition (including a large number of com...
One of the standard objections against guilds in the premodern world has been their exclusiveness. G...
Drawing on long-term evidence for Italian and Dutch cities, this paper aims to shed some light on th...
The history of the growth of a city in Western Europe, particularly the cities in the Benelux region...
The recent literature on craft guilds in late medieval and early modern Europe no longer considers t...
From the late Middle Ages until the mid-eighteenth century, guilds exerted substantial social contr...
For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-indus...
Dutch historiography of the guilds was ‘sectarian’ throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentie...
In recent decades historians, sociologists and political scientists have attempted to explain why in...
In recent decades historians, sociologists and political scientists have attempted to explain why in...
One of the standard objections against guilds in the premodern world has been their exclusiveness. G...
This chapter traces the urban employment trends in cultural industries in the Netherlands from 1899 ...
The volume contains selected essays which together re-frame the roles of guilds in medieval and earl...
In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dep...
In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dep...
This paper discusses Gelderblom’s hypothesis that urban competition (including a large number of com...
One of the standard objections against guilds in the premodern world has been their exclusiveness. G...
Drawing on long-term evidence for Italian and Dutch cities, this paper aims to shed some light on th...
The history of the growth of a city in Western Europe, particularly the cities in the Benelux region...
The recent literature on craft guilds in late medieval and early modern Europe no longer considers t...
From the late Middle Ages until the mid-eighteenth century, guilds exerted substantial social contr...
For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-indus...
Dutch historiography of the guilds was ‘sectarian’ throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentie...
In recent decades historians, sociologists and political scientists have attempted to explain why in...
In recent decades historians, sociologists and political scientists have attempted to explain why in...
One of the standard objections against guilds in the premodern world has been their exclusiveness. G...
This chapter traces the urban employment trends in cultural industries in the Netherlands from 1899 ...
The volume contains selected essays which together re-frame the roles of guilds in medieval and earl...
In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dep...
In recent years a growing body of literature has begun to consider the possible presence of path dep...
This paper discusses Gelderblom’s hypothesis that urban competition (including a large number of com...
One of the standard objections against guilds in the premodern world has been their exclusiveness. G...