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Institutional Change: Abolishing the Guild System in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt

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Caspari, V. Institutional Change: Abolishing the Guild System in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, 99999(), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.2024.378706
Caspari, Volker "Institutional Change: Abolishing the Guild System in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt" Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch 99999., 2025, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.2024.378706
Caspari, Volker (2025): Institutional Change: Abolishing the Guild System in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt, in: Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, vol. 99999, iss. , 1-12, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.2024.378706
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Institutional Change: Abolishing the Guild System in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt

Caspari, Volker

Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. (2025), Online First : pp. 1–12

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Volker Caspari, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

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Abstract

The present article outlines a 15-year body of research in institutional economics investigating the influence of institutions on economic growth and development processes. The study explores whether institutional changes act as a catalyst for significant economic and social developments, using the abolition of the guild system in two neighbouring states of the Confederation of the Rhine and since 1815 of the German Confederation – Hesse-Darmstadt and Hesse-Nassau – as a case study.

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Volker Caspari: Institutional Change: Abolishing the Guild System in the Grand Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt 1
1. Introduction – Long-Term Economic Development: Two Lines of Research 1
2. Emergence of Institutions 6
3. The Guild System 7
4. Abolishing the Guild System: An Experiment in Offenbach 8
5. Concluding Remarks 9
References 11

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