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Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000–1800
Sheilagh Ogilvie
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Paperback. A magisterial new history of commercial institutions developed through the study of merchant guilds. Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series. Num Pages: 500 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJD; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 230 x 24. Weight in Grams: 682. Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800. Series: Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series. 500 pages. A magisterial new history of commercial institutions developed through the study of merchant guilds. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HBJD; KCZ. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 24. Weight: 792.
What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful to increase their wealth, at the expense of outsiders, customers and society as a whole? These privileged associations of businessmen were key institutions in the European economy from 1000 to 1800. Historians debate merchant guilds' role in the Commercial Revolution, economists use them to support theories about institutions and development, and policymakers view them as ... Read more
What was the role of merchant guilds in the medieval and early modern economy? Does their wide prevalence and long survival mean they were efficient institutions that benefited the whole economy? Or did merchant guilds simply offer an effective way for the rich and powerful to increase their wealth, at the expense of outsiders, customers and society as a whole? These privileged associations of businessmen were key institutions in the European economy from 1000 to 1800. Historians debate merchant guilds' role in the Commercial Revolution, economists use them to support theories about institutions and development, and policymakers view them as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521747929
SKU
V9780521747929
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About Sheilagh Ogilvie
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds, 1000–1800
'Sheilagh Ogilvie shows yet again the brilliant scientific results to be achieved from combining an economist's clarity of mind with a historian's respect for how it actually was. She demolishes the Panglossian story put forward by the New Institutionalists, reminding us that for guilds as for manors and taxes and trade a proud power could trump efficiency. Elegantly written, decisively ... Read more