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Poland was a major player in the pre-industrial era (the period that you referred to in your original comment, I am not saying anything about the industrializat
by badpun 8y ago
Poland was a major player in the pre-industrial era (the period that you referred to in your original comment, I am not saying anything about the industrialization period). It accomplished it without any ventures to Asia or Africa. Your original claim still looks invalid to me.
- xstartup 8y agoPolish per capita GDP that the county already lagged behind Western Europe in economic development at the end of the Middle Ages Polish living standards in the sixteenth century were below those of Italy and The Netherlands but on par with those of England. The author demonstrated that the Polish series began to also lag behind the English values in the seventeenth century due to growth in the latter series. According to a study of GDP made by Wójtowicz and Wójtowicz (2009), people living in Poland enjoyed only around 70 % of the goods and services available to the inhabitants of Western Europe in the sixteenth century. This value declined to around 40 % in the late eighteenth century source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11698-016-0154-5 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11698-016-0154-5
- badpun 8y agoInteresting. Do you have data on the various Germanic states from that period? As far as I know, they've only joined the colonization/exploitation game in the late XIX century, and yet I think they did ok before that?