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Obstacles to economic exchange and growth by the new commercial classes during Napoleon's rule
- Which conditions were viewed as obstacles to economic exchange and growth by the new commercial classes during Napoleon s rule?
Overview
Conditions that were viewed as obstacles to economic exchange and growth by the new commercial classes during Napoleon's rule
- The absence of freedom of markets.
- State-imposed restriction on movement of goods and capital.
- Time-consuming calculations resulting from a difference in currency weight and measurement.
- The first half of the 19th century had low explosive population growth.
- Increase in unemployment crisis due to enormous increase in population all over Europe.
- Small producers faced stiff competition from import of cheap machine-made goods where production was earned out mainly in homes or small workshop
- Peasants struggled under the burden of feudal dues.
