Dutch Capital and World Capitalism

Throughout the seventeenth century, Holland was the unrivalled centre of world trade and banking.

Part I. The economy of the United Provinces/L'economie des Provinces-Unies: 1. Le capitalisme hollandais et l'organisation de l'espace dans les Provinces-Unies Jean-Claude Boyer; 2. The economic situation in the Dutch Republic during the seventeenth century Bernard Hendrik Slicher van Bath; 3. An inquiry into the behaviour of wages in the Dutch Republic and the Southern Netherlands from 1580 to 1800 Jan de Vries; Part II. Dutch capitalism and Europe/Le capitalisme hollandais et l'Europe: 4. Dutch capitalism and the European world-economy Peter Wolfgang Klein; 5. Dutch hegemony in the seventeenth-century world-economy Immanuel Wallerstein; 6. Les interdependances economiques dans le champ d'action europeen des Hollandais (XVIe-XVIIIe siecle) Pierre Jeannin; 7. Image du capitalisme hollandais au XVIIIe siecle. Le miroir marseillais Charles Carriere; Part III. Dutch capitalism and Asia/Le capitalisme hollandais et l'Asie: 8. The import of bullion and coin into Asia by the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Ivo Schoffer & F.S. Gaastra; 9. The Dutch East India Company as an institutional innovation Niels Steensgaard; 10. Le capitalisme hollandais Denys Lombard; Part IV. Measuring the Dutch economy/Mesures de l'economie hollandaise: 11. Hommage aux historiens hollandais et contribution a l'histoire economique des Provinces-Unies Michel Morineau.