Macht Stadtluft frei? Polycentricity, Urbanization, and the 'European Miracle': The Case of the Low Countries, 1000-1800

Bas Spliet

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-95882-3_9

Macht Stadtluft frei? Polycentricity, Urbanization, and the 'European Miracle': The Case of the Low Countries, 1000-1800

Bas Spliet^*

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University of Antwerp

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In 1994, Ralph RaicoRaico, Ralph, the historian of classical liberalismClassical liberalism, wrote an essay on a new school of thought concerning the ‘European miracle’. He took this term from an influential book with the same name by Eric Jones, which was first published in 1981. The EuropeanEuropean miracle referred to one of the most perennial questions in the economic history discipline: what caused the rise of the WestWest, the? In Raico’sRaico, Ralph view, Jones and a number of other historians had caused a paradigm shift away from the MarxistMarxist framework towards the so-called ‘institutional’ approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Polycentric Federalism and World Orders
Subtitle of host publication	New Ideas for Classical Liberal & Libertarian Foreign Policy
Editors	Brandon Christensen
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Chapter	9
Pages	269-292
Number of pages	24
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-95882-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-95881-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95882-3_9
Publication status	Published - 11 Nov 2025
Externally published	Yes

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Name	Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Volume	Part F1130
ISSN (Print)	2946-2673
ISSN (Electronic)	2946-2681

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Spliet, B. (2025). Macht Stadtluft frei? Polycentricity, Urbanization, and the 'European Miracle': The Case of the Low Countries, 1000-1800. In B. Christensen (Ed.), Polycentric Federalism and World Orders: New Ideas for Classical Liberal & Libertarian Foreign Policy (pp. 269-292). (Palgrave Studies in International Relations; Vol. Part F1130). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95882-3_9

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Macht Stadtluft frei? Polycentricity, Urbanization, and the 'European Miracle': The Case of the Low Countries, 1000-1800. / Spliet, Bas.
Polycentric Federalism and World Orders: New Ideas for Classical Liberal & Libertarian Foreign Policy. ed. / Brandon Christensen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2025. p. 269-292 (Palgrave Studies in International Relations; Vol. Part F1130).

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Spliet B. Macht Stadtluft frei? Polycentricity, Urbanization, and the 'European Miracle': The Case of the Low Countries, 1000-1800. In Christensen B, editor, Polycentric Federalism and World Orders: New Ideas for Classical Liberal & Libertarian Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan. 2025. p. 269-292. (Palgrave Studies in International Relations). doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-95882-3_9

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