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Article: Grenzenloses Wachstum? Das rheinische Wirtschaftsburgertum und seine Industrialisierungsdebatte, 1814-1857.
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- Business History
- Article date:
- April 1, 1993
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Boch investigates how Rhenish businessmen thought about economic development between 1815 and mid-century. His major sources are newspapers and periodicals financed and often written by businessmen. Although rich in manufacturing and trade, the lower Rhineland was not an 'industrial society' in 1815. Rhenish businessmen did not think in such terms, although they wanted 'development'. Some saw free trade, low wages, expansion of exports overseas, and limited mechanisation as the way to respond to England; others stressed tariff protection and stimulation of domestic demand. All regarded England as 'unnatural'. Mechanisation would lead to constant crises of over-production, ...