Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: The Many Scales of Merchant Profit: Accounting for Norms, Practices and Results in the Age of Commerce
- Part I Understanding Merchant Transactions
- Part II The Credit Nexus and its Pitfalls
- Part III Beyond Price Signals: The Institutional Framework
- Part IV Diversification and Risk Management
- Conclusion: Reorienting Early Modern Economic History: Merchant Economy, Merchant Capitalism and the Age of Commerce
- Notes
- Index
CONTENTS
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures and Tables
- Introduction: The Many Scales of Merchant Profit: Accounting for Norms, Practices and Results in the Age of Commerce
- Part I Understanding Merchant Transactions
- Part II The Credit Nexus and its Pitfalls
- Part III Beyond Price Signals: The Institutional Framework
- Part IV Diversification and Risk Management
- Conclusion: Reorienting Early Modern Economic History: Merchant Economy, Merchant Capitalism and the Age of Commerce
- Notes
- Index
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- Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680–1830 , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014