Jan Luiten van Zanden
Jan Luiten van Zanden (born November 15, 1955 ) is a Dutch economic historian.
Van Zanden studied at the Free University of Amsterdam and received his doctorate there in 1985 on 19th century agricultural history in the Netherlands ( De economische ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse landbouw in de negentiende eeuw, 1800-1914 ). Since 2009 he has been professor of economic history at the University of Utrecht and since 2011 at the University of Groningen and Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences .
He dealt in particular with Dutch economic history of the modern era (particularly 19th and 20th centuries), but also of Indonesia, the history of Rabobank and Royal Dutch Shell .
In 2003 he received the Spinoza Prize . From 2009 he was President of the International Economic History Association and was President of the Organizing Committee of the 15th World Economic History Congress in Utrecht in 2009. In 2016 he was elected a member of the Academia Europaea .
Books
- with Maarten Prak: Nederland en het Poldermodel. Sociaal-economische geschiedenis van Nederland 1000-2000 , Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 2013.
- with Daan Marks: An Economic History of Indonesia 1800-2010 , London: Routledge, 2012 (also translated into Indonesian)
- The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution. The European Economy in a Global Perspective, 1000-1800 . Leiden, Brill Publishers, 2009.
- with Stephen Howarth, Joost Jonker, Keetie Sluyterman: A History of Royal Dutch Shell , 4 volumes, Amsterdam, Boom Publishers / Oxford University Press, 2007
- with Tine de Moor: Vrouwen en de geboorte van het kapitalisme in West-Europa , Amsterdam, Boom Publishers, 2006.
- with A. van Riel: The Structures of Inheritance. The Dutch Economy in the Nineteenth Century , Princeton University Press, 2004
- Dutch edition: Nederland 1780-1914. State, institutes en economische ontwikkeling . Amsterdam, Balans, 2000.
- with J.-P. Smits, E. Horlings: Dutch GNP and its Components, 1800-1913 , Groningen; Growth and Development Center, 2000, online
- with Keetie Sluyterman, Joost Dankers, Jos van der Linden: Het Coöperatieve Alternatief. Honderd Jaar Rabobank 1898-1998 , The Hague, 1998.
- with Lee Soltow: Income and Wealth Inequality in the Netherlands 1500-1990 , Het Spinhuis; Amsterdam, 1998.
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The economic history of the Netherlands in the 20th century . Routledge; London, 1997
- Dutch translation: Een klein land in de long twintigste eeuw . Het Spectrum; Utrecht, 1997.
- with Wybren Verstegen: Groene Geschiedenis van Nederland , Utrecht: Het Spectrum, 1993.
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Arbeid tijdens het commercial capitalism. A nieuwe interpretatie van de opkomst en de achteruitgang van de economie van Holland, 1350-1850 . Bergen, 1991.
- English translation: The Rise and Decline of Holland's economy. Merchant Capitalism and the Labor Market . Manchester University Press, 1993.
- with P. Boomgaard: Food crops and arable land, Java 1815-1942 . ( Changing Econiomy in Indonesia , Volume 10), Royal Tropical Institute; Amsterdam, 1990.
- with RT Griffiths: Economische geschiedenis van Nederland in de twintigste eeuw , Het Spectrum; Utrecht, 1989.
- De industrialisatie in Amsterdam 1825-1914 , Octavo: Bergen, 1987.
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De economische ontwikkeling van de Nederlandse landbouw in de negentiende eeuw, 1800-1914 . Wageningen, 1985 (dissertation)
- English edition: The Transformation of European Agriculture in the 19th Century: The Case of the Netherlands , VU University Press, 1994.
- Publisher: The economic development of the Netherlands since 1870 . Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 1995.
- Edited with M. 't Hart, J. Jonker: A financial history of the Netherlands , Cambridge University Press 1997
- Editor with Jan Lucassen, Tine De Moor: The return of the guilds , Cambridge University Press 2008
- Editor with Maarten Prak: Technology, Skills and the Pre-Modern Economy in the East and the West . Global Economic History Series. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
- Editor with Bert van der Spek, Bas van Leeuwen: A History of Market performance: From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World , London: Routledge, 2013.
- Editor with Joost Dankers, Keetie Sluyterman: Variaties in kapitalisme. Developing the prestatie van de Nederlandse markteconomie in the twintigste eeuw . SMO, The Hague, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Zanden, Jan Luiten van |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch economic historian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1955 |