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Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / edited by S.R. Epstein, Maarten Prak.
2008
B 75 EPS.G
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Title
Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / edited by S.R. Epstein, Maarten Prak.
Description
viii, 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780521887175
0521887178 hardback
9786611255152
661125515X
0511387458
9780511387456
9780511388446 electronic book
0511388446 electronic book
0511384610 electronic book
9780511384615 electronic book
9780511496738 ebook
0511496737 ebook
9780521153911
0521887178 hardback
9786611255152
661125515X
0511387458
9780511387456
9780511388446 electronic book
0511388446 electronic book
0511384610 electronic book
9780511384615 electronic book
9780511496738 ebook
0511496737 ebook
9780521153911
Alternate Call Number
B 75 EPS.G
Summary
For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account recent research on innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship.
Note
For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account recent research on innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
1. Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry; 2. Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-industrial Europe; 3. Subcontracting in guild-based export trades, thriteenth-eighteenth centuries; 4. Circulation of skilled labour in late medieval and early modern central Europe; 5. Painters guilds and the art market during the dutch golden age; 6. Craft guilds and technological change: the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry in the seventeenth and eighteenh centuries; 7. Guilds, technology and economic change in early modern venice; 8. Inventing in a world of guilds: silk fabrics in eighteenh-century Lyon; 9. "Not to hurt of trade": Guilds and innovation in horology and precision instrument making; 10. Reaching beyond the City Wall: London guilds and national regulation, 1500-1700; 11. Guilds in decline? London livery companies and the rise of a liberal economy, 1600-1800.
Introduction : Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / S.R. Epstein and Maarten Prak
Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry / Ulrich Pfister
Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-industrial Europe / S.R. Epstein
Subcontracting in guild-based export trades, thirteenth-eighteenth centuries / Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly
Circulation of skilled labour in late medieval and early modern Central Europe / Reinhold Reith
Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age / Maarten Prak
Craft guilds and technological change : the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ulrich Pfister
Guilds, technology and economic change in early modern Venice / Francesca Trivellato
Inventing in a world of guilds : silk fabrics in eighteenth-century Lyon / Liliane Hilaire-Pérez
'Not to hurt of trade' : guilds and innovation in horology and precision instrument making / Anthony Turner
Reaching beyond the city wall : London guilds and national regulation, 1500-1700 / Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis
Guilds in decline? London livery companies and the rise of a liberal economy, 1600-1800 / Michael Berlin.
Introduction : Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / S.R. Epstein and Maarten Prak
Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry / Ulrich Pfister
Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in pre-industrial Europe / S.R. Epstein
Subcontracting in guild-based export trades, thirteenth-eighteenth centuries / Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly
Circulation of skilled labour in late medieval and early modern Central Europe / Reinhold Reith
Painters, guilds and the art market during the Dutch Golden Age / Maarten Prak
Craft guilds and technological change : the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Ulrich Pfister
Guilds, technology and economic change in early modern Venice / Francesca Trivellato
Inventing in a world of guilds : silk fabrics in eighteenth-century Lyon / Liliane Hilaire-Pérez
'Not to hurt of trade' : guilds and innovation in horology and precision instrument making / Anthony Turner
Reaching beyond the city wall : London guilds and national regulation, 1500-1700 / Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis
Guilds in decline? London livery companies and the rise of a liberal economy, 1600-1800 / Michael Berlin.
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Published
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Language
English
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