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1. A History of Market Performance

   From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World

   Edited by R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, E.S. van Leeuwen

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth. However,...

   To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. An Economic History of Indonesia

   1800-2010

   By Jan Luiten van Zanden, Daan Marks

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Based on new datasets, this book presents an economic history of Indonesia. It analyses the causes of stagnation of growth during the colonial and independence period, making use of new theoretical insights from institutional economics and new growth theory. The book looks at the major themes of...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge