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Government Activity and Industrialization in Germany (1815–70)

In: The Economics of Take-Off into Sustained Growth

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  • Wolfram Fischer

    (University of Münster)

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It is often said that industrialization on the Continent was not initiated by private enterprise alone as in the British Isles, but was essentially assisted by government activity. ‘On the Continent the State played a much more active part in fostering economic progress than was customary in England or Scotland in the early nineteenth century’, writes W. O. Henderson, one of the foremost experts in the comparative economic history of Europe in the nineteenth century.1 ‘To a Frenchman, or a German, the economic activities of the government in Ireland were normal while the laissez-faire attitude of the government in England was abnormal.’

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  • Wolfram Fischer, 1963. "Government Activity and Industrialization in Germany (1815–70)," International Economic Association Series, in: W. W. Rostow (ed.), The Economics of Take-Off into Sustained Growth, chapter 0, pages 83-94, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-1-349-00226-9_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-00226-9_5
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