Jan de Vries (Berkeley University of California)

Gebundenes Buch

The Price of Bread

Regulating the Market in the Dutch Republic

Beschreibung

How to maintain fair market relations, a major contemporary concern, is addressed in this study of the regulation of bread prices. The humble loaf serves as a prism through which to explore major developments in early modern European society and how public market regulation affected private economic life.

Autor

Jan de Vries is Emeritus Professor of History and Economics and Professor of the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous publications, including The Industrious Revolution: Consumer Demand and the Household Economy, 1650 to the Present (Cambridge, 2008), which won the Ranki Prize. In 2000, he was awarded the Heineken Prize in History, and is a past president of the Economic History Association.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 534
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 996g
• ISBN-13: 9781108476386
• ISBN-10: 1108476384
• Artikelnr.: 54435511