how was it that the netherlands led in the great divergence (beginning in middle ages)... http://scholars-stage.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-rise-of-west-asking-right-questions.html … (1/2) cc. @Scholars_Stage
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what was their secret? cc.
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@hbdchick I get the feeling you have an idea.@Scholars_Stage -
@JayMan471 no. i'm seriously mystified! -??-@Scholars_Stage
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think i've answered my own question.
@Scholars_Stage's data on gdp/person in *netherlands* actually only for *holland*... (1/n) -
(2/n) ...data from here: Persistent but not consistent: The growth of national income in Holland 1347–1807 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014498311000611 … ...
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(3/3) ...the netherlands may have been sparsely populated up until 1500, but not so much the busy trading ports of holland.
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