Grain markets in Europe, 1500-1900 : integration and deregulation /
"Karl Gunnar Persson surveys a broad sweep of economic history, examining one of the most crucial markets - grain. His analysis allows him to draw more general lessons - for example, that liberalisation of markets was linked to political authoritarianism. Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900 trac...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©1999.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in modern economic history ;
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Bread and Enlightenment: the quest for price stability and free trade in eighteenth-century Europe
- 2. Markets, mortality and human capabilities
- 3. Harvest fluctuations, storage and grain-price responses
- 4. Market failures and the regulation of grain markets: a new interpretation
- 5. Market integration and the stabilisation of grain prices in Europe, 1500-1900
- 6. Authoritarian liberalism and the decline of grain market regulation in Europe, 1760-1860.