Stephan R. EpsteinGuilds, Innovation and the European Economy, 1400 1800
Herausgeber: Epstein, S. R.; Prak, Maarten
Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction: guilds, innovation,
and the European economy, 1400-1800 S. R. Epstein and Maarten Prak; 1.
Craft guilds, the theory of the firm, and early modern proto-industry
Ulrich Pfister; 2. Craft guilds, apprenticeship and technological change in
pre-industrial Europe S. R. Epstein; 3. Subcontracting in guild-based
export trades, thirteenth-eighteenth centuries Catharina Lis and Hugo Soly;
4. Circulation of skilled labour in late medieval and early modern Central
Europe Reinhold Reith; 5. Painters, guilds and the art market during the
Dutch Golden Age Maarten Prak; 6. Craft guilds and technological change:
the engine loom in the European silk ribbon industry in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries Ulrich Pfister; 7. Guilds, technology and economic
change in early modern Venice Francesca Trivellato; 8. Inventing in a world
of guilds: silk fabrics in eighteenth-century Lyon Liliane Perez; 9. 'Not
to hurt of trade': guilds and innovation in horology and precision
instrument making Anthony Turner; 10. Reaching beyond the city wall: London
guilds and national regulation, 1500-1700 Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick
Wallis; 11. Guilds in decline? London livery companies and the rise of a
liberal economy, 1600-1800 Michael Berlin; Index.
