Description
First published in 1986. The free market is often associated with liberty and individualism, and this connection has been made for more centuries than is generally realised. This essays collected in this book trace the development, importance and influence of the market as a dominating component of the shared human life from classical antiquity to the present. The authors, from various backgrounds, keep constantly in view the moral and political questions raised by the role of markets, as well as laying out succinctly what can be known or deduced about the actual operation of the market in Western and other cultures. This book will be of interest to students of economics and history.
Table of Contents
List of figures; List of Symposium Members; Introduction; 1 Labour, Property and the Morality of Markets Robert Sugden 2 The Development of the Market in Archaic Greece James M. Redfield 3 Early Fairs and Markets in England and Scandinavia Peter Sawyer 4 Markets and Freedom in the Middle Ages A.R. Bridbury 5 Early Modern English Markets Eric Kerridge 6 Entrepreneurship, Market Process and the Industrial Revolution in England B.L. Anderson 7 Markets and Development in Africa and Asia A.J.H. Latham; Notes on contributors; Index
