Department - Gelderblom, Oscar

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Gelderblom, Oscar

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Academic Title

Dr.

Full Name

Oscar Gelderblom

Date of Birth

17/06/1971

Position

Associate professor

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Oscar Gelderblom is an economic historian whose main research interest is the history of Europe before the Industrial Revolution. His publications deal with financial markets, trade, entrepreneurship, collective action, migration, political economy, and, last but not least, cleanliness. He has recently finished a monograph on the institutional arrangements foreign merchant communities in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam relied on to mitigate two of the fundamental problems of exchange: violence and opportunism. His current work is on the evolution of financial markets in pre-industrial Europe.

E-Mail

o.gelderblom@uu.nl

Telephone

+31 (0) 30 2536459

Fax

Secretariat

OGC Office (Janskerkhof 13), Laura Tankink (030 253 8239)

Working Days

Mo-Fri

Office Hours

Visiting Address

Drift 10, room 3.07

Post Address

Drift 10, 3512 BS, Utrecht

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

·          Oscar Gelderblom, ed., The Political Economy of the Dutch Republic: Taxation, Government and Finance, c. 1500-1800 (forthcoming 2009)

·         Bas van Bavel and Oscar Gelderblom, "Land of Milk and Butter. The Economic Origins of Cleanliness in the Dutch Golden Age", (forthcoming Past & Present 2009)

·          Oscar Gelderblom, “Entrepreneurs in the Dutch Golden Age”, forthcoming in W. Baumol, D. Landes, and J. Mokyr, eds. The History of Entrepreneurship (Princeton University Press 2009)

·          Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker, “Amsterdam as the Cradle of Modern Futures Trading and Options Trading, 1550-1650”, in: W.N. Goetzmann and K.G. Rouwenhorst, eds., The Origins of Value. The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2005, 189-205

·          Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker, “Completing a Financial Revolution. The Finance of The Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595-1612”, The Journal of Economic History, 64-3, September 2004, 641-672.

·          Oscar Gelderblom, “Coping with the Perils of the Sea: The Last Voyage of ‘Vrouw Maria’ in 1771”, International Journal of Maritime History, XV-2, December 2003, 95-116.

·          Oscar Gelderblom, “From Antwerp to Amsterdam: The Contribution of Merchants from the Southern Netherlands to the Rise of the Amsterdam Market” (Review. A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations, vol. XXVI-3 (2003), 247-282.

·          Oscar Gelderblom, “The Governance of Early Modern Trade: The Case of Hans Thijs (1556-1611)”, Enterprise & Society 4-4 (2003), 606-639.

·          Electronic publication Collective bibliography of Merchants from Southern Netherlands in Amsterdam1578-1630: http://192.87.107.12:8080/kooplieden

·          Oscar Gelderblom, Zuid-Nederlandse kooplieden en de opkomst van de Amsterdamse stapelmarkt (1578-1630) (Hilversum 2000)

Themes of Education

Early Modern History
Fundamental Problems of Exchange
Colonial Expansion of Europe
Historiography of Economic History

Current Education Activities

Sideline Activities

Member The Young Academy (KNAW-DJA): www.knaw.nl/dja

Chair of the N.W. Posthumus Institute Research Program Economy and Society of the Low Countries in the Pre-Industrial Period: www.lowcountries.nl

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Working Papers

	Title
	(with Regina Grafe) The Rise and Fall of Merchant Guilds
	A Land of Milk and Butter: The Economic Origins of Cleanliness in the Dutch Golden Age
	Entrepreneurship in the Golden Age of the Dutch Republic
	The Conditional Miracle. Institutional Change, Fiscal Policy, Bond Markets, and Interest Rates in Holland, 1514-1713
	The Organization of Long-Distance Trade in England and the Dutch Republic (1550-1650)
	The Resolution of Commercial Conflicts in Bruges, Antwerp, and Amsterdam, 1250-1650
	Violence and Growth. The Protection of Long-distance trade in the Low Countries, 1250-1650
	With a view to hold: the emergence of institutional investors on the Amsterdam securities market during the 17th and 18th centuries
	with Daniel Bogart, Mauricio Drelichman, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal: State and Private Institutions

Research Projects

	Title
	The evolution of financial markets in pre-industrial Europe

Expertise

	Field
	Economic and social history
	Financial markets
	Preindustrial period

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