Role of the National State

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In this essay the writer compares and contrasts the role of the state in economic development in Germany and Russia in the 19th century. As is demonstrated, these two countries represent particularly valuable subjects for study as the differences between the two reflect the wide range of Continental European political and economic systems. The writer shows that while the states of Germany differed dramatically from each other in general, they possessed complex bureaucracies and a progressive approach to industrialization using German resources.

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"One of the most common subjects of critical controversy in the field of European economic history concerns the different development paths taken by Great Britain and its Continental counterparts during the 19th century. While there exists a consensus that British industrialization was primarily entrepreneurial while that on the Continent was driven more by State activity, there is little agreement beyond this as to the details of these differences."

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