The political economy of merchant empires /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1991.
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Sumário:
- Introduction / James D. Tracy
- Institutions, transaction costs, and the rise of merchant empires / Douglass C. North
- Merchants and states / M. N. Pearson
- The rise of merchant empires / Thomas A. Brady Jnr.
- Europe and the wider world: the military balance / Geoffrey Parker
- The pirate and the emperor: power and the law on the seas / Anne Perotin-Dumon
- Transport costs and long-range trade / Russell R. Menard
- Transaction costs / Jacob M. Price
- Evolution of empire / Sanjay Subrahmanyam and Luis Felipe F. R. Thomaz
- Comparing the Tokagawa Shogunate with Habsburg Spain / Dennis O. Flynn
- Colonies as mercantile investments / Jose Jobson de Andrade Arruda
- Reflections on the organising principle of pre-modern trade / K. N. Chaudhuri.