Commerce in Pre-industrial Europe: an Introduction*
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Economic growth in pre-industrial Europe was driven by the expansion of the market. The ‘market’ was a complex commercial structure made up of merchant firms, merchant associations, and organized markets. This paper provides an overview of the pre-industrial commercial structure, of how it functioned, and of how it evolved. JEL Categories: N13, D23, L14, L81, O12 *This paper is a draft chapter of The Origins of Western Economic Success: Commerce, Finance, and Government in Pre-Industrial Europe. Other draft chapters may be downloaded from http://www.dartmouth.edu/~mkohn/
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