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-dev...
Silvia Marzagalli and Jean-Pierre Dedieu presented a paper at the session "Commodity Chains in the First Period of Globalization” organized by Werner Scheltjens, Philipp Robinson Rössner, Guillaume Daudin, Loïc Charles at the Ninth European Social Science History conference at Glasgow University,...
