Capitalism and (or) Age of Commerce: the peculiarities of market exchange in the early modern era

While market exchange is usually assumed to be taking place between a buyer and a seller within a discrete transaction, early modern merchant practice departed from this model in crucial ways. Because of highly segmented markets and a lack of freely available information on both product qualities an...

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Main Author: Pierre Gervais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Société d'Etudes Anglo-Américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles 2020-12-01
Series:XVII-XVIII
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/1718/5818