Edited by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

• Contents: Introduction 1. Backward, Late or Different?: Aspects of the Economic Development of the Netherlands in the 19th Century 2. The Role of the Outer Provinces in the Process of Dutch Economic Growth in the 19th Century 3. Industrialization and Economic Growth in the Netherlands during the Nineteenth Century: An Integration of Recent Studies 4. Long-Term Trends in Income and Wealth Inequality in the Netherlands 1808–1940 5. The Economic Relationship Between the Netherlands and Colonial Indonesia, 1870–1940 6. The Dance Round the Gold Standard: Economic Policy in the Depression of the 1930s 7. Interwar Unemployment in the Netherlands 8. Sinecures or Sinews of Power? Interlocking Directorships and Bank-Industry Relations in the Netherlands, 1910–1940 9. The Dutch Economic Miracle 10. The Economic Development of the Netherlands and Belgium and the ‘Success’ of the Benelux, 1945–1958 11. Economic Crisis and Economic Policy in the Thirties and Seventies 12. The Vintage Approach to Output and Employment Growth in the Netherlands, 1921–1976 13. Dating Postwar Business Cycles in the Netherlands, 1948–1976 Index