The establishment of new market-places in East- Flanders, 1750-1900

Wouter Ronsijn ()
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Wouter Ronsijn: Department of History, Ghent University

No 1, EED-Working Papers from EED research unit, department of History, Ghent University

Abstract: This paper reconstructs the number of markets established in East-Flanders between 1750 and 1900, and tries to find whether there was a link with economic ideas and the discourse on the effects of periodic markets: whether more markets were established, and permissions to establish markets were more easily given, in times when free-trade ideas flourished. No clear connection was found between the ideas on the effects of market-places and the number of markets actually established. A comparatively large number of new markets was established in East- Flanders between 1750 and 1900, but this must have been related to other factors than merely the ideas on markets.

Keywords: Flanders; markets; economic growth; rural and urban history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 N43 N73 N93 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 116 pages
Date: 2012-09
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