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Princes and Merchants: European City Growth before the Industrial Revolution
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As measured by the pace of city growth in western Europe from 1000 to 1800. absolutist monarchs stunted the growth of commerce and industry. A region ruled by an absolutist prince saw its total urban population shrink by one hundred thousand people per century relative to a region without absolutist government. This might be explained by higher rates of taxation under revenue-maximizing absolutist governments than under non-absolutist governments. which care more about general economic prosperity and less about State revenue.
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- De Long, J. B., & Shleifer, A.
- Venue
- The Journal of Law and Economics
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1993-10
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 671-702
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- 0022-2186 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5285
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