An Economic History of Europe

Karl Gunnar Persson is Emeritus Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen and has taught comparative economic history and globalization studies over five decades. He has published widely in the leading economic history journals and was the founding editor of European Review of Economic History. His previous monographs include Pre-Industrial Economic Growth: Social Organization and Technological Progression in Europe (1988) and Grain Markets in Europe, 1500–1900: Integration and Deregulation. Educated in Sweden, he is a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences. Paul Sharp has been an Associate Professor at the Department of Business and Economics at the University of Southern Denmark since 2012. He completed his PhD in economics at the University of Copenhagen in 2009, after studying at King's College London and the University of Copenhagen. The main focus of his work is on economic and agricultural history and he is currently working on a co-authored book on the early history of the Danish dairy industry. He has published widely in economics, history, and economic history journals.

Part I. The Making of Europe; Part II. Europe from Obscurity to Economic Recovery; Part III. Population, Economic Growth and Resource Constraints; Part IV. The Nature and Extent of Economic Growth in the Pre-Industrial Epoch; Part V. Institutions and Growth; Part VI. Knowledge, Technology Transfer and Convergence; Part VII. Money, Credit and Banking; Part VIII. Trade, Tariffs and Growth; Part IX. International Monetary Regimes in History; Part X. The Era of Political Economy - from the Minimal State to the Welfare State in the Twentieth Century; Part XI. Inequality among and within Nations - Past, Present, Future; Part XII. Globalization and its Challenge to Europe.