CGEH Working Paper Series The character of growth before ‘modern economic growth’? The GDP of Holland between 1347 and 1807 Jan Luiten van Zanden, Utrecht University Bas van Leeuwen, Warwick University, Utrecht University March 2011 Working paper no. 4 http://www.cgeh.nl/working-paper-series/ © 2011 by Authors. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source.