Economic History of Information (Early Modern to Modern Period)

在近代早期的欧洲，商业信息和情报是通过由国际商人组成的网络传播的。同质化的商业信息从阿姆斯特丹传播到整个欧洲，欧洲的商业世界变得越来越同质化。相反，英国的信息传播到整个大英帝国，基于英国国家的权力。伦敦是一个大帝国的中心，阿姆斯特丹是一个门户，国际商人通过它传播信息。阿姆斯特丹与伦敦的差异对应着近代早期与近代之间的差异。

In early modern Europe commercial information and intelligence were distributed by using the networks that were composed of international merchants. Homogeneous commercial information was spread from Amsterdam d to all over Europe, and European commercial world became more and more homogeneous. On the contrary, British information spread to all over the British Empire, based on he power of British state. London was the center of a Big Empire, and Amsterdam was a gateway, through which information was diffused by international merchants. The difference of Amsterdam and London corresponds the the one between early modern and modern period.