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Philipp Robinson Rössner, « Sheilagh Ogilvie, Institutions and European Trade. Merchant Guilds, 1000–1800 », Œconomia, ID : 10.4000/oeconomia.904
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The book refutes a commonly-held notion that guilds—mainly merchant guilds, a form of association to be found across most European countries between the eleventh and nineteenth centuries—were efficient institutions directed at solving coordination problems, asymmetric information and imperfectly-developed markets. It is argued that, contrary to views put forth by other scholars, most notably the late S. Epstein, as well as A. Greif, that guilds did not represent ‘best practice’ models, in a s...