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The older interpretations of the early modern European economy centred around issues of production: how goods were produced, how raw materials were supplied, how the industries were organised and financed, how labour was employed. Questions about the demand for the goods produced, about the market for them, who consumed them and why and how they reached the consumer were subordinated to the topic of production to such an extent that issues of demand and consumption were largely ignored.
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Musgrave, P. (1999). The Rise of a Consumer Society. In: The Early Modern European Economy. European History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27535-9_4
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