Retail growth and consumer changes in a declining urban economy: Antwerp (1650-1750)

Economic History Review

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 638-663

  Blondé, Bruno ^a   van Damme, Ilja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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ECONOMIC GROWTH; ECONOMIC HISTORY; EIGHTEENTH CENTURY; RETAILING; URBAN ECONOMY; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CONSUMER; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; EMPLOYMENT; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH; HISTORY; INCOME; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

COMMERCE; CONSUMER SATISFACTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EMPLOYMENT; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 18TH CENTURY; INCOME; NETHERLANDS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN HEALTH; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

NETHERLANDS;

EID: 77955128815     PISSN: 00130117     EISSN: 14680289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2009.00503.x     Document Type: Article

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