Institutions and European Trade : Merchant Guilds, 1000-1800 /
Sheilagh Ogilvie
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011
- vi, 493 p. ; 24 cm.
- Cambridge studies in economic history. .
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.