The Cambridge Economic History of Europe: From the Decline of the Roman Empire, Volume 4

agricultural Amsterdam annuities Antwerp arable areas Baltic basic coin became bills of exchange capital cattle cent centres circulation clearing bank commercial commodities Company consumption copper corn cottars countries crops current money Danzig decline demand Dutch East Economic History eighteenth century England English enterprise entrepreneurs especially European Exchange Bank expansion export factors fairs farm farmers favourable fifteenth finance fish fisheries fishermen fluctuations France French Fuggers Genoese Germany gold grain prices growth guilder harvest historians Holland important increase industry investment Italian Italy labour land loans London Lübeck Lyons manufacture merchant bankers Middle Ages money of account monopoly Netherlands North Sea Overijssel payment period Poland population ports precious metals production profit putting-out system regions rural second half seventeenth century ships silver sixteenth century social Spain Spanish supply Sweden Swedish textile Thirty Years War tion towns trade writings obligatory yield ratios