An economic history of Europe : knowledge, institutions and growth, 600 to the present / Karl Gunnar Persson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : what is economic history? -- The making of Europe -- Europe from obscurity to economic recovery -- Population, economic growth and resource constraints -- The nature and extent of economic growth in the pre-industrial epoch -- Institutions and growth -- Knowledge, technology transfer and convergence -- Money, credit and banking -- Trade, tariffs and growth / Karl Gunnar Persson and Paul Sharp -- International monetary regimes in history / Karl Gunnar Persson and Paul Sharp -- The era of political economy : from the minimal state to the Welfare State in the twentieth century -- Inequality among and within nations : past, present, future -- Globalization and its challenge to Europe.