Thinking about Capitalism

Dutch Commerce and National Power (1x4)

Ausstrahlung: Mär 01, 2008

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic provided an example of a highly commercial society with increasing national power. The Dutch East India Company, which transported luxury goods from what are now India and Indonesia to Europe, became the most important commercial enterprise in the world. To conduct their overseas trade, the Dutch developed into a major naval power. Thus commerce and national power were interlinked, leading European thinkers to reformulate the civic republican tradition in a more commercial direction.