Bas van Bavel
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Bas van Bavel's Degrees
- PhD Economic History Utrecht University
- Masters Economic History Utrecht University
- Bachelors History Utrecht University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Balthassar Jozef Paul "Bas" van Bavel is a Dutch historian. He has held the chair of Transitions of Economy and Society at Utrecht University since 2011, and has been professor of Economic and Social History since 2007. His research has mostly focused on pre-industrial Northwestern Europe. He was one of the winners of the 2019 Spinoza Prize, the highest award in Dutch science.
Bas van Bavel's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Invisible Hand?: How Market Economies have Emerged and Declined Since AD 500 (2016) (92)
- The Jump-Start of the Holland Economy During the Late-Medieval Crisis, C.1350-C.1500 (2004) (81)
- Inequality in nature and society (2017) (66)
- Manors and Markets (2010) (64)
- The jump-start of the Holland economy during the late-medieval (2004) (62)
- Manors and markets. Economy and society in the Low Countries (500-1600): a synopsis (2010) (46)
- How Important Were Formalized Charity and Social Spending Before the Rise of the Welfare State? A Long‐Run Analysis of Selected Western European Cases, 1400–1850 (2016) (40)
- Factor markets in early Islamic Iraq, c. 600-1100 AD (2014) (36)
- Climate and society in long‐term perspective: Opportunities and pitfalls in the use of historical datasets (2019) (35)
- The organization and rise of land and lease markets in northwestern Europe and Italy, c. 1000–1800 (2008) (30)
- Rural wage labour in the sixteenth-century Low Countries: an assessment of the importance and nature of wage labour in the countryside of Holland, Guelders and Flanders (2005) (28)
- Better Understanding Disasters by Better Using History: Systematically Using the Historical Record as One Way to Advance Research into Disasters (2015) (28)
- Landholding and land transfer in the North Sea area (Late Middle Ages - 19th century) (2004) (27)
- Disasters and History (2020) (23)
- Understanding the economics of limited access orders: incentives, organizations and the chronology of developments (2016) (20)
- Global inequality remotely sensed (2021) (19)
- People and land: rural population developments and property structures in the Low Countries, c. 1300–c. 1600 (2002) (19)
- Land Productivity and Agro-systems in the North Sea Area (Middle Ages - 20th Century). Elements for Comparison (1999) (17)
- Introduction: Factor markets in global economic history (2009) (16)
- The economic origins of cleanliness in the Dutch golden age. (2009) (14)
- The Low Countries, 1000-1750 (2010) (14)
- History as a laboratory to better understand the formation of institutions (2015) (13)
- The Transition in the Low Countries: Wage Labour as an Indicator of the Rise of Capitalism in the Countryside, 1300–1700 (2008) (13)
- Markets for Land, Labor, and Capital in Northern Italy and the Low Countries, Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries (2011) (12)
- The economics of violence in natural states (2016) (12)
- History and the Social Sciences: Shock Therapy with Medieval Economic History as the Patient (2016) (12)
- Economic inequality and institutional adaptation in response to flood hazards : a historical analysis (2018) (11)
- Rural Societies and Environments at Risk: Ecology, Property Rights and Social Organisation in Fragile Areas (Middle Ages-Twentieth Century) (2013) (11)
- The organisation of markets as a key factor in the rise of Holland from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century: a test case for an institutional approach (2012) (11)
- The Development of Leasehold in Northwestern Europe, c. 1200 - 1600 (2008) (10)
- Better Understanding Disasters by Better Using History (2016) (8)
- Wealth Inequality in the Netherlands, c. 1950-2015. The Paradox of a Northern European Welfare State (2017) (8)
- The emergence and growth of short-term leasing in the Netherlands and other parts of Northwestern Europe (eleventh-seventeenth centuries). A chronology and a tentative investigation into its causes (2009) (8)
- Historical effects of shocks on inequality: the great leveler revisited (2021) (7)
- Mills, Cranes, and the Great Divergence: The Use of Immovable Capital Goods in Western Europe and the Middle East, Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries (2018) (7)
- Open societies before market economies: Historical analysis (2020) (6)
- Looking for the islands of equality in a sea of inequality. Why did some societies in pre-industrial Europe have relatively low levels of wealth inequality? (2020) (6)
- 6. Structures of landownership, mobility of land and farm sizes. Diverging developments in the northern part of the Low Countries, c. 1300-c. 1650 (2004) (4)
- Markets for Land, Labor, and Capital in Northern Italy and the Low Countries, Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries (2011) (4)
- Rural societies and environments at risk (2013) (4)
- A valuation of arable productivity in the central part of the Dutch river area, c. 1360 - c. 1570 (1999) (3)
- History as a laboratory to better understand the formation of institutions (2014) (3)
- The institutional organization of land markets: introduction (2008) (3)
- Elements in the transition of the rural economy: Factors contributing to the emergence of large farms in the Dutch river area (15th-16th centuries) (2001) (3)
- Social relations : property and power (2010) (3)
- Rural Revolts and Structural Change in the Low Countries, thirteenth – early fourteenth centuries’ (2010) (3)
- The land market in the North Sea area in a comparative perspective, 13th-18th centuries (2003) (3)
- Market dominance and endogenous decline: the contribution of historical analysis (2020) (2)
- New Perspectives on Factor Markets and Ancient Middle Eastern Economies: A Survey (2014) (2)
- Arable yields and total arable output in the Netherlands from the late Middle Ages to the mid-19th century (1999) (2)
- Rural history and the environment: a survey of the relationship between property rights, social structures and sustainability of land use (2013) (2)
- Arable yields and total arable output in the Netherlands from the late Middle Ages to the mid-19th century (1999) (2)
- The economics of the limited access order (2015) (2)
- The role of the secular canons in the introduction of lease holding in the XIIIth century: Case-study: the Liège-area (2009) (1)
- ASSISTENZA E SOLIDARIETÀ IN EUROPA SECC. XIII-XVIII SOCIAL ASSISTANCE AND SOLIDARITY IN EUROPE FROM THE 13 TO THE 18 CENTURIES (2013) (1)
- HOW DOES ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AFFECT THE ABILITY OF SOCIETIES TO COPE WITH HAZARDS AND SHOCKS? EXPLORING THE HISTORICAL RECORD OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL WESTERN EUROPE TO REVEAL THE INDIRECT IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS (2016) (1)
- Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: Political Legacies of the Islamic Waqf (2013) (1)
- Social Change in the Late Middle Ages (2010) (0)
- Historical effects of shocks on inequality: the great leveler revisited (2021) (0)
- History as a Laboratory: Materials and Methods (2020) (0)
- Capital Market and Interest Rates in Holland (12th-16th Centuries) (2002) (0)
- Power, market and economic development. The rise, organisation and institutional development of markets in Holland, 11th-16th century (2001) (0)
- The Economy: Agriculture and Industries in the Early and High Middle Ages (2010) (0)
- Immovable capital goods in medieval Muslim lands: why water-mills and building cranes went missing (2015) (0)
- The Paradox of a Northern European Welfare State1 (2017) (0)
- Economic Growth and Stagnation in the Pre-Industrial Era: Iraq, Italy and the Low Countries, 600-1700 (2007) (0)
- The Rise and the Institutional Framework of Markets in the High and Late Middle Ages (2010) (0)
- The Organisation of Markets as a Key Factor in the Rise of Holland, Fourteenth-Sixteenth Centuries. A Test Case for an Institutional Approach (2011) (0)
- Friese testamenten tot 1550 [Review of: J.A. Mol (1996) -] (1996) (0)
- Disaster Preconditions and Pressures (2020) (0)
- Commerce Before Capitalism in Europe, 1300–1600. By Martha C. Howell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xii, 365. $90.00, cloth; $29.99, paper (2011) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (1966) (0)
- Economic Growth and Social Change in the Very Long Run (2010) (0)
- Peasants and townsmen in medieval Europe. Studia in honorem Adriaan Verhulst [Review of: E. Thoen (1997) -] (1997) (0)
- Origins and impacts of institutions (2010) (0)
- Effects of Disasters (2020) (0)
- The medieval Low Countries as a testing ground for new ideas on economic and social development. : A reply from the author of 'Manors and Markets’ (2011) (0)
- French and German Abstracts (2008) (0)
- Why are the returns on large wealth higher? Explaining the thick tail of wealth inequality in Western market economies (2019) (0)
- Classifications and Concepts (2020) (0)
- The Economy in the Late Middle Ages: Agriculture and Industries (2010) (0)
- The market economy and the open society : inseparable or incompatible ? (2017) (0)
- Markets in an Early Medieval Empire (2016) (0)
- Markets in Late Medieval and Early Modern Principalities (2016) (0)
- Walter Scheidel, The great leveler. Violence and the history of inequality from the Stone Age to the twenty-first century (2018) (0)
- Introduction. The emergence of lease and leasehold in a comparative perspective: Definitions, causes and consequences (2009) (0)
- Wealth inequality in pre‐industrial Europe: What role did associational organizations have? (2022) (0)
- ‘Low Income Inequality, High Wealth Inequality' (2013) (0)
- The Emergence of a Regional Framework in the Early and High Middle Ages: Power, Property, and Social Structures (2010) (0)
- Low Income Inequality, High Wealth Inequality.The Puzzle of the Rhineland Welfare States (2013) (0)
- Introduction: Disasters and History (2020) (0)
- Markets in Medieval City-States (2016) (0)
- Introduction: Purpose, Context, and Approach (2010) (0)
- The Emergence of a Regional Framework in the Early and High Middle Ages: Land and Occupation (2010) (0)
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