Guilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400–1800.
Re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy.
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2008
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| Schlagworte: | Wirtschaftsordnung Zunft Technischer Fortschritt Institutionenökonomik Wirtschaftsgeschichte Mittelalter Industrialisierung Europa Industrialization Guilds mehr... |
| Umfang: | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Guilds, Innovation, and the European Economy, 1400-1800 -- Characteristics of Craft Production -- Guilds and the Pre-industrial Economy -- Apprenticeship -- Specialisation, Division of Labour, Coordination -- Protecting and Sharing Knowledge -- Labour Mobility -- From 1400 to 1800 -- Response to Change -- Alternatives? -- 1 Craft Guilds, the Theory of the Firm, and Early Modern Proto-industry -- The Theory of the Firm in the Context of the Early Modern Economy -- Delegated Monitoring -- Multiple Measurement and Vertical Integration -- A Typology of Guilds -- Craft Guilds as Institutions for Delegated Monitoring -- Multiple Measurement and the Vertical Integration of Production Chains through Craft Guilds -- Craft Guilds as Sub-optimal Institutions -- Rent Seeking -- Resistance against New Technologies and Production Regimes -- Evolution of the Supply of Institutions -- Conclusion -- 2 Craft Guilds, Apprenticeship, and Technological Change in Pre-industrial Europe -- What Were Craft Guilds For? -- Apprenticeship and the Provision of Skills -- Did Crafts Oppose Technological Change? -- Did Crafts Innovate? -- Why Did Craft Guilds Persist? -- 3 Subcontracting in Guild-based Export Trades, Thirteenth-Eighteenth Centuries -- Putting-out and Subcontracting in Export-oriented Trades -- Subcontracting Configurations in Craft-based Corporations -- Guild-based Textile Trades: Merchant Capital and Subcontracting -- Guild-based Textile Trades: Master Artisans as Entrepreneurs -- Subcontracting, Product Innovation, and the Rise of -- 4 Circulation of Skilled Labour in Late Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe -- Mobility of Pre-modern Skilled Workers -- Organisation and Patterns of Travel -- Technological Diffusion via Travel -- Conclusion. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (362 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780511384615 0511384610 9780521887175 0521887178 |