Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.

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.

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Europe--Commerce--History.
Merchants--Europe--History.
Europa--Comercio--Historia.
Comerciantes--Historia.--Europa

HF 3495 / O34i 2011

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