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The underground wealth of nations : on the capitalist origins of silver mining, A.D. 1150-1450 /
Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism. Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capita...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Yale series in economic and financial history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Silver mining was a capitalist business long before the supposed origin of modern capitalism. Hundreds of years before a sixteenth-century crisis in European agriculture led to the origins of capital, investment, and finance, the silver mining industry exhibited many of the features of modern capitalism. Silver mines were large-scale businesses that demanded large investments and steady cash flow, achieved by spreading that risk through fungible shares and creating legal structures to protect entrepreneurs from financial disaster. Jeannette Graulau argues that mining preceded agriculture as the first true capitalist enterprise of the modern world. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 373 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780300249576 0300249578 |