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Law and Commerce in Pre-Industrial Societies

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Law and Commerce in Pre-Industrial Societies

Name: Law and Commerce in Pre-Industrial Societies
Brand: Brill Nijhoff
SKU: 9789004306233
Price: 1875.30 HKD
Availability: InStock
Author: Barry Hawk
ISBN: 9789004306233

By Barry Hawk

Brill Nijhoff October 2015

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ISBN-13: 9789004306233
Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Publication: October 2015
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: Netherlands ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Well before states, literacy, or legal systems, there were commerce and trade, which are found in all societies irrespective of politics, social norms or ideologies.

Athenian landowners, Roman senators and Qing mandarins screened their participation in commerce and trade. Legal and informal institutions were developed to secure persons and property, resolve commercial disputes, raise capital and share risk, promote fair dealing, regulate agents and gather market information.

Law and Commerce in Pre-Industrial Societies examines commerce, its participants and these institutions through the lens of nine pre-industrial societies from hunter/gatherers to 18th century Qing merchants.

The book provides historical perspective to contemporary debates about the relationship between commerce and law, public ordering versus privately created systems of law, the rule of law and the relative merits of courts versus merchant networks to resolve disputes.

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