Shaping Medieval Markets
The Organisation of Commodity Markets in Holland, c. 1200 - c. 1450
Biographical note
Jessica Dijkman, Ph.D. (2010) in History, Utrecht University, is a postdoc researcher at the department of Economic and Social History in Utrecht. She publishes on institutions regulating trade and production in the Middle Ages.
Readership
All those interested in economic history, the history of markets and trade, the use of New Institutional Economics in history, and the history of medieval Holland.
Table of contents
List of Tables
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction
PART I: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: TRADE VENUES
2. Fairs
3. Rural markets c. 1200 – c. 1350: a late start?
4. New institutions for rural trade (c. 1350 – c. 1450)
5. The Dordrecht staple
PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: RULES AND PRACTICES
6. Weighing and measuring
7. Contract enforcement
PART III: MARKET PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE TESTS
8. Market integration
9. Market orientation
10. Conclusions
APPENDICES
Appendix A. Survey of fairs
Appendix B. Rural weigh houses in the north of Holland around 1400
Appendix C. Charters of urban liberties
Appendix D. Wheat prices
References
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Preface
1. Introduction
PART I: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: TRADE VENUES
2. Fairs
3. Rural markets c. 1200 – c. 1350: a late start?
4. New institutions for rural trade (c. 1350 – c. 1450)
5. The Dordrecht staple
PART II: THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK: RULES AND PRACTICES
6. Weighing and measuring
7. Contract enforcement
PART III: MARKET PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE TESTS
8. Market integration
9. Market orientation
10. Conclusions
APPENDICES
Appendix A. Survey of fairs
Appendix B. Rural weigh houses in the north of Holland around 1400
Appendix C. Charters of urban liberties
Appendix D. Wheat prices
References
Index
€129.00$179.00
Settler Economies in World History is a comparative, wide-ranging historical study of the experience of the modern settler societies that have followed a distinctive economic and institutional path to the present from their neo-European origins.
€129.00$183.00
Shipping was the most dynamic sector of the economy of Europe from the fourteenth into the nineteenth century. Europeans who moved goods by sea dramatically improved their efficiency, laying the foundations for greater economic growth to come and for domination of the world’s oceans.
€129.00$183.00
Drawing on statistical techniques and samples this book offers an estimate of medieval production rates of manuscripts in the Latin West. Such information is a helpful production indicator for a period of which we have so little other quantitative data.
€136.00$189.00
The book provides an overall reconstruction of the European economy, in the global context, from the High Middle Ages until the beginning of Modern Growth in the 19th century.
€140.00$195.00
Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.
€107.00$149.00
Employing comparative and quantitative historical methods Frankema explores long run trends of asset and income distribution in Latin America, arguing that there is little reason to regard the yawning gap between rich and poor as the persistent result of a colonial heritage.
€107.00$149.00
This study uncovers the institutional framework of markets for 'renten', which allowed large segments of the public and private sectors in late medieval Holland to accumulate capital, and thus functioned as capital markets that enabled economic development.
€107.00$149.00
‘The Long Road to the Industrial Revolution’ offers a new explanation of the origins of the industrial revolution in Western Europe by placing development in Europe within a global perspective. It focuses on its specific institutional and demographic development since the late Middle Ages, and ...
No additional information