Epstein, Stephan R.. Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800

Folger bibliographic ID: 244178
Folger call number: HD6473.E85 E67 2008
Folger holdings ID: 309311
Accession Number: 265942

For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account recent research on innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship

General notes

Includes index For a long time guilds have been condemned as a major obstacle to economic progress in the pre-industrial era. This re-examination of the role of guilds in the early modern European economy challenges that view by taking into account recent research on innovation, technological change and entrepreneurship

Contents

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

Extended title: Guilds, innovation, and the European economy, 1400-1800 / edited by S.R. Epstein, Maarten Prak

Guilds Industrialization Europe Zunft Wirtschaftsentwicklung Europa

author: Epstein, Stephan R., 1960-2007
associated with: Prak, Maarten Roy, 1955-