Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247113 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
EHES Working Paper No. 183
Publisher: 
European Historical Economics Society (EHES), s.l.
Abstract: 
Natural resources, especially energy resources, are often considered vital to the process of economic development, with the availability of coal considered central for the nineteenth century. Clearly, however, although coal might have spurred economic development, development might also have spurred the discovery and use of coal. To shed light on this, we suggest that the case of resource poor Denmark, which spent centuries looking for coal, is illuminating. Specifically, we emphasize that the process of looking for coal and the creation of a natural resource industry in itself is important beyond the obvious dichotomy of haves and have-nots. We seek to understand this process and find that prices proved an important stimulus to coal surveys.
Subjects: 
Coal
Denmark
natural resources
mining
JEL: 
N55
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.