Market Ethics and Practices, c.13001850

Informationen zum Autor Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary) is author of From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York (2006) and co-editer of Class Matters (2008) . He is working on a book investigating the introduction of paper money to colonial America. James E. Shaw (University of Sheffield) is a historian who focuses on the relationship of legal structures (laws, practices, institutions) to the daily practices of economic life. His books include The Justice of Venice (2006) and Making and Marketing Medicines in Renaissance Florence (2011). Zusammenfassung Market Ethics and Practices, c. 1300-1850 analyses the nature, development, and operation of market ethics in the context of social practices, from rituals of exchange and unofficial expectations to law, institutions, and formal regulations. It is ideal for students and postgraduates of late medieval and early modern economic history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Principles and regulations. 1. The ethics of arbitrage and forestalling across the late medieval world 2. Whose "common good"? Parisian market regulation, c. 13001800 3. Self-control and savings: Adam Smith and the creation of modern capital 4. Demonic ambiguities: Enchantment and disenchantment in Nat Turner's Virginia Part II: Practices and microhistories. 5. Neighbours and hedges: Shopkeeping in early New England 6. Parasols and poverty: Conjugal marriage, global economy, and rethinking the consumer revolution 7. Trust in illicit markets: The role of Jewish merchants in Jamaica's Spanish American trade 8. In union there was strength: The legal protection of eighteenth-century merchant partnerships in England and France 9. Commercial practices at the margins of the merchant economy 10."To winne them by fayre meanes": The ethics of exchange in the making of the early English Atlantic ...

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Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary) is author of From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York (2006) and co-editer of Class Matters (2008). He is working on a book investigating the introduction of paper money to colonial America.

James E. Shaw (University of Sheffield) is a historian who focuses on the relationship of legal structures (laws, practices, institutions) to the daily practices of economic life. His books include The Justice of Venice (2006) and Making and Marketing Medicines in Renaissance Florence (2011).

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Market Ethics and Practices, c. 1300-1850 analyses the nature, development, and operation of market ethics in the context of social practices, from rituals of exchange and unofficial expectations to law, institutions, and formal regulations. It is ideal for students and postgraduates of late medieval and early modern economic history.

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Part I: Principles and regulations. 1. The ethics of arbitrage and forestalling across the late medieval world 2. Whose "common good"? Parisian market regulation, c. 13001800 3. Self-control and savings: Adam Smith and the creation of modern capital 4. Demonic ambiguities: Enchantment and disenchantment in Nat Turner's Virginia Part II: Practices and microhistories. 5. Neighbours and hedges: Shopkeeping in early New England 6. Parasols and poverty: Conjugal marriage, global economy, and rethinking the consumer revolution 7. Trust in illicit markets: The role of Jewish merchants in Jamaica's Spanish American trade 8. In union there was strength: The legal protection of eighteenth-century merchant partnerships in England and France 9. Commercial practices at the margins of the merchant economy 10."To winne them by fayre meanes": The ethics of exchange in the making of the early English Atlantic