Dutch Long Waves, Hegemonic Power, and Climate Change

Phillip Anthony O’Hara
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Phillip Anthony O’Hara: Global Political Economy Research Unit (GPERU)

Chapter Chapter 5 in Long Waves of Growth, Hegemonic Power, and Climate Change in the World Economy, 2025, pp 173-225 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the Dutch Golden Age of the late 1500s through to the mid-to-late-1600s vis-à-vis institutions, technologies, and geo-spatial-ecological factors (including climate change) that conditioned the Dutch pathways and circuits of socioeconomic dynamics (CSD), set within the context of the world system which they led. We scrutinize the ways the Dutch achieved hegemonic leadership and present data on Dutch GDP per capita growth decadal waves, GDP per capita waves, and other performance measures especially for the 1500s–1700s to ascertain linkages between waves of growth, hegemony, and climate change. We also examine Dutch waves of performance, through to the 2020s, during eras of British, US, and potentially Chinese hegemony. A conclusion follows.

Keywords: Dutch hegemony; Long waves; Climate change; Pathways and circuits of socioeconomic dynamics (CSD); Dutch Golden Age; Institutions; Technologies; Eco-geo-spatial structures; Rise and fall; Principles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-4132-1_5

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