Institutions of Hanseatic Trade Studies on the Political Economy of a Medieval Network Organisation

The merchants of the medieval Hanse monopolised trade in the Baltic and North Sea areas. The authors describe the structure of their trade system in terms of network organisation and attempts to explain, on the grounds of institutional economics, the coordination of the merchants' commercial ex...

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Published: Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group 2016
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