IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palscp/978-1-137-33978-2_3.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The History of Ragusa in an Eastern Mediterranean Context

In: Institutions Always “Mattered”

Author

Listed:
  • Oleh Havrylyshyn
  • Nora Srzentić

Abstract

The historical literature on Ragusa exhibits a considerable consensus that despite its small size and limited natural resources, it was one of the most successful states in the eastern Mediterranean, with volumes of shipping and trade, levels of wealth, and architectural and cultural achievements comparable to the major centres of the region. Innumerable authors over the centuries have attributed its success to effective governance based on a political regime of republicanism that may not have been democratic but relatively fair and benevolent providing pioneering social provisions like education, health care, quarantine systems, and grain reserves for times of shortage. To this was coupled a generally liberal, open economy, with prudent state finances, limited market intervention, and encouragement of private enterprise. Is this rosy view of Ragusa truly justified? We ask this question in the book and try to answer it by using the new methodologies of cliometrics, testing hypotheses of historians with as much hard data as possible.

Suggested Citation

  • Oleh Havrylyshyn & Nora Srzentić, 2015. "The History of Ragusa in an Eastern Mediterranean Context," Palgrave Studies in Economic History, in: Institutions Always “Mattered”, chapter 3, pages 45-60, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-1-137-33978-2_3
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137339782_3
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palscp:978-1-137-33978-2_3. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.