Long Waves in Economics: Bob van Gelderen’s Extraordinary Contribution in 1913

Herman Pieterson

Spring Tide. Considerations on Industrial Development and Price Movement, originally published in Dutch in 1913 in the Social-Democratic monthly De Nieuwe Tijd and translated by Herman Pieterson is a pioneering work by the first systematic researcher of long waves in economics, Jacob (Bob) van Gelderen, writing as J. Fedder.