Politics in the Dutch Economy

The Economics of Institutional Interaction

Bart Snels

• Publisher: Taylor & Francis
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9780429822162
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: International Economics
• Index: Economics

First published in 1999, this volume surveys economic theories of political mechanisms as well as political theories of the influence of the institutional context in which decisions about social economic policies are being made. In the first half of the seventeenth century the Dutch Republic emerged as one of Europe's leading maritime powers. The political and military leadership of this small country was based on large-scale borrowing from an increasingly wealthy middle-class of merchants, manufacturers and regents This volume presents the first comprehensive account of the political economy of the Dutch republic from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century. Building on earlier scholarship and extensive new evidence it tackles two main issues: the effect of political revolution on property rights and public finance, and the ability of the nation to renegotiate issues of taxation and government borrowing in changing political circumstances.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Models of Political Economic Interaction
• 2 Partisan Politics in the Dutch Economy
• 3 Electoral Politics in the Dutch Economy
• 4 Institutional Interaction in the Netherlands
• Summary and Conclusion
• List of Symbols
• List of Abbreviations
• References