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Limiting risks in the Dutch processing industry, 1600-1800

  • Joris van den Tol

The so-called «First Modern Economy» of the Dutch Republic was largely stagnant between the 1650s and 1770s, apart from the industry that processed colonial raw materials into goods fit for market. This traffieken industry (trafficq) quadrupled its share of the Dutch early modern economy. At least in part, this was due to protectionist policies that made trafficq the «pampered child of trade policy». While most industries and manufacturers could offset some risks through guild memberships, the colonial processing industry operated entirely outside the purview and protection of the guilds. At the same time, colonial processing industry relied on merchants and ships for both its raw materials and connections to markets in the European hinterland. It is therefore all the more surprising that this industry succeeded in influencing and dominating Dutch trade policy.

  • Keywords:
  • Mercantilism,
  • political economy,
  • petitions,
  • trade policy,
  • industry,
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Joris van den Tol

Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands - ORCID: 0000-0002-4181-4217

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Limiting risks in the Dutch processing industry, 1600-1800

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Joris van den Tol

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Inglese

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10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.10

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2026

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Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk management, insolvency, and bankruptcy in the pre-modern world (13th-18th centuries)

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Angela Orlandi

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Firenze University Press

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