Globalization in the Early Modern Era: New Evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic Trade, c. 1600-1800

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Wageningen University & Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0507
• DOI: 10.1017/S0022050716000553
• 发表日期: 2016
• 页码: 520-558
• 关键词: integration; MARKETS

摘要

This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the origins of globalization. It examines the process of commodity price convergence, an indicator of globalization, between Europe and Asia on the basis of newly obtained price data from the Dutch East India Company (VOC) archives. Prices for many commodities in the Dutch-Asiatic trade converged already in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a result of the growth of trade and competition among traders and companies. The extent of convergence, however, was determined, in part, by the ability of the VOC to control commodity markets.