The European Guilds (eBook)

An Economic Analysis

Sheilagh Ogilvie (Autor)

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2019
672 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18510-1 (ISBN)

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Sheilagh Ogilvie is professor of economic history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the British Academy. Her books include Institutions and European Trade and A Bitter Living.

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A comprehensive analysis of European craft guilds through eight centuries of economic historyGuilds ruled many crafts and trades from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, and have always attracted debate and controversy. They were sometimes viewed as efficient institutions that guaranteed quality and skills. But they also excluded competitors, manipulated markets, and blocked innovations. Did the benefits of guilds outweigh their costs? Analyzing thousands of guilds that dominated European economies from 1000 to 1880, The European Guilds uses vivid examples and clear economic reasoning to answer that question.Sheilagh Ogilvie's book features the voices of honourable guild masters, underpaid journeymen, exploited apprentices, shady officials, and outraged customers, and follows the stories of the ';vile encroachers'women, migrants, Jews, gypsies, bastards, and many othersdesperate to work but hunted down by the guilds as illicit competitors. She investigates the benefits of guilds but also shines a light on their dark side. Guilds sometimes provided important services, but they also manipulated markets to profit their members. They regulated quality but prevented poor consumers from buying goods cheaply. They fostered work skills but denied apprenticeships to outsiders. They transmitted useful techniques but blocked innovations that posed a threat. Guilds existed widely not because they corrected market failures or served the common good but because they benefited two powerful groupsguild members and political elites.Exploring guilds' inner workings across eight centuries, The European Guilds shows how privileged institutions and exclusive networks shape the wider economyfor good or ill.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Reihe/Serie: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Schlagworte: apothecary • Apprentices • Apprenticeship • apprenticeships • barriers to entry • Black Market • bribery • Calculation • cartel rents • Cartels • Central Europe • Certification • Chapter 9 • Chapters • Citizenship • city-state • clockmaker • Collective Action • Competition • comprehensive training • compulsory apprenticeship • Confiscation • Consumers • corrupt governments • Corruption • Customer • Disruptive innovation • Ducat • Early Modern Europe • early modern period • economic activities • Economic Benefits • Economic Development • Economic Discrimination • Economic Growth • Economic History • economic performance • Economics • economist • economy • Elite • Employment • entitlement • Entrepreneurship • Entry Barriers • European economies • European Economy • Exclusion • exclusive rights • Expense • Exploitation • external competition • Externality • female competitors • female masters • Female workers • Groupthink • guild-free enclaves • guild masters • guild members • guild numbers • guilds • guild strength • Haarlem • Household • Human Capital • Human capital investment • income • Informal Sector • information asymmetries • Information asymmetry • Innovation • Insider • Institution • internal cohesiveness • internal rivalry • Invention • Jews • Journeyman • journeymen • Jurisdiction • legal entitlements • Legislation • Leiden • Livery company • lobbying • local government • Lord Mayor of London • Lower Austria • male tutelage • Market Failure • Market Failures • Market manipulation • Market power • market regulations • merchant • Middle Rhine • minimum selling prices • numerus clausus • Nuremberg • Oligarchy • Opportunism • opportunity cost • Ostracism • Payment • percentage • Political Elites • political pressure • Politics • Practitioners • Price ceiling • private-order institutions • privileges • producer • Producers • Product market • Professional association • Public institution (United States) • quality control • quality violations • Quantity • raw material • Regulation • Rent-Seeking • Requirement • Retail • royal charter • Ruler • Scarcity • Seigneur • serfdom • Sexism • Shipbuilding • shopkeeper • silversmith • Social capital • Social Networks • Southern Netherlands • spatial clustering • state failures • Statute • suburb • Supply (economics) • Tailor • Tax • Technological Innovation • technological knowledge • Toledo silk-twisters • town council • transaction cost • Ulrich • Unintended Consequences • wage • Wealth • welfare • Workforce • Work Skills • Znojmo
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18510-7 / 0691185107
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18510-1 / 9780691185101