How to maintain fair market relations, a major contemporary concern, is addressed in this study of the regulation of bread prices. The humble loaf serves as a prism through which to explore major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life.
How to maintain fair market relations, a major contemporary concern, is addressed in this study of the regulation of bread prices. The humble loaf serves as a prism through which to explore major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life.
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Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
Jan de Vries is Emeritus Professor of History and Economics and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous publications, including The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Demand and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present (Cambridge, 2008), which won the Ranki Prize. In 2000, he was awarded the Heineken Prize in History, and is a past president of the Economic History Association.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I. The Regulatory Regime: Protecting the Consumer and Strengthening the State: 1. Bread price regulation in Europe before the 1590s 2. Free trade in grain? 3. The Dutch broodzetting: the introduction of a 'new system' of bread price regulation 4. Administering and enforcing the new bread price regulations 5. The Dutch 'peculiar institution' Part II. Industrial Organization: The Producers in a Regulated Industry: 6. Grain: the interaction of international trade and domestic production 7. The milling sector: a trade harnessed to raison d'état? 8. The baking enterprise: efficiency versus convenience 9. The structure of bread prices Part III. Consumer Welfare and Consumer Choice: 10. Crise de subsistence: did price regulation shelter consumers from food crises? 11. Choosing what to eat in the early modern era 12. Bread consumption: a wheat bread revolution? 13. Measuring the standard of living: a demand-side approach Part IV. Perspective and Demise: 14. Dutch bread price regulation in international perspective 15. Bread price regulation renewed and abolished, 1776-1855 Conclusion.
Introduction Part I. The Regulatory Regime: Protecting the Consumer and Strengthening the State: 1. Bread price regulation in Europe before the 1590s 2. Free trade in grain? 3. The Dutch broodzetting: the introduction of a 'new system' of bread price regulation 4. Administering and enforcing the new bread price regulations 5. The Dutch 'peculiar institution' Part II. Industrial Organization: The Producers in a Regulated Industry: 6. Grain: the interaction of international trade and domestic production 7. The milling sector: a trade harnessed to raison d'état? 8. The baking enterprise: efficiency versus convenience 9. The structure of bread prices Part III. Consumer Welfare and Consumer Choice: 10. Crise de subsistence: did price regulation shelter consumers from food crises? 11. Choosing what to eat in the early modern era 12. Bread consumption: a wheat bread revolution? 13. Measuring the standard of living: a demand-side approach Part IV. Perspective and Demise: 14. Dutch bread price regulation in international perspective 15. Bread price regulation renewed and abolished, 1776-1855 Conclusion.
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