Re: the boring false opposition between money and art

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In a message dated 12/3/10 11:58:17 AM, w-con...@sbcglobal.net writes:

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>  About the Dutch 18thc economy:   They seem to have spent a lot on the War 
of the Spanish Succession. A lot of this government debt was sopped up   and 
  kept by a very few people, which meant that speculative cash was scarce. 
This meant that industrialization languished, also innovation in 
industrialization,real wages fell and fewer people bought paintings.
Kate Sullivan