Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 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
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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- Information
- Institutions and European TradeMerchant Guilds, 1000–1800, pp. 476 - 493Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011