European Guilds - An Economic Analysis

Zusatztext "Winner of the Gyorgy Ranki Prize, Economic History Association" Informationen zum Autor Sheilagh Ogilvie is the Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford and a fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Institutions and European Trade and A Bitter Living . Klappentext Guilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations. Did the advantages of guilds outweigh their costs? Analyzing thousands of guilds from 1000 to 1880, The European Guilds answers that question with vivid examples and clear economic reasoning. Sheilagh Ogilvie features the voices of honourable guild masters, underpaid journeymen, exploited apprentices, shady officials, and outraged customers, and follows the stories of the "vile encroachers??women, migrants, Jews, gypsies, bastards, and others?desperate to work but hunted down by the guilds as illicit competitors. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded comp

Product details

• Authors: Sheilagh Ogilvie, Ogilvie Sheilagh
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9780691217024
• ISBN: 978-0-691-21702-4
• No. of pages: 688
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 236 mm x 42 mm
• Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Europe, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, HISTORY / Europe / Western, Economic history, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Political Economy, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Development economics & emerging economies, European history: medieval period, middle ages, Development economics and emerging economies, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval