Institutions and European Trade - Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800

Informationen zum Autor Sheilagh Ogilvie is Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her prize-winning publications include State Corporatism and Proto-Industry: The Württemberg Black Forest 1590-1797 (Cambridge, 1997, winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize 1999) and A Bitter Living: Women, Markets, and Social Capital in Early Modern Germany (2003, winner of the René Kuczynski Prize 2004). Klappentext A magisterial new history of commercial institutions developed through the study of merchant guilds. Zusammenfassung A magisterial new history of commercial institutions! this book shows how the study of merchant guilds can help us understand which types of institution made trade grow! why institutions exist! and how corporate privileges affect economic efficiency and human well-being. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Merchant guilds, efficiency, and social capital; 2. What was a merchant guild?; 3. Local merchant guilds; 4. Alien merchant guilds and companies; 5. Merchant guilds and rulers; 6. Commercial security; 7. Contract enforcement; 8. Principal-agent problems; 9. Information; 10. Price volatility; 11. Institutions, social capital and economic development.

Product details

• Authors: Sheilagh Ogilvie, Sheilagh (University of Cambridge) Ogilvie
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.03.2011
• EAN: 9780521747929
• ISBN: 978-0-521-74792-9
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series; Cambridge Studies in Economic; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Ser; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series; Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Ser
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous