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Domestic Trade and Market Size in Late-Eighteenth-Century France

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2010

Guillaume Daudin
Guillaume Daudin*
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Professeur des Universités in economics, Université Lille-I (EQUIPPE), Sciences Po (OFCE) Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Cité Scientifique, Faculté d’Economie et de Sciences Sociales, Bâtiment SH2, 59655 Villeneuve d’Ascq cedex France. E-mail: gdaudin@mac.com.
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Abstract

This article tests whether smaller domestic markets can explain why France industrialized more slowly than Britain. To do so, it uses the Tableauxdu Maximum. It begins by presenting this source and then checks if the data from the source are plausible using a logit theoretical gravity equation. The results of this gravity equation are then employed to compute the expected market size of specific supply centers. Even if differences in real, nominal, and disposable income are taken into account, some French supply centers had access to domestic markets that were larger than the whole of Britain.

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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 70 , Issue 3 , September 2010 , pp. 716 - 743
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 2010

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