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Grain Markets in Europe, 1500-1900 : Integration and Deregulation.

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This is a modern economic and institutional history of European grain markets. This book examines the markets' early regulation, their poor performance and the frequent market failures. Using insights from development economics and econometrics, Persson also extracts general lessons from this s...

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Main Author: Persson, Karl Gunnar
Other Authors: Feinstein, Charles, O'Brien, Patrick, Supple, Barry, Temin, Peter, Toniolo, Gianni
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Series:Cambridge studies in modern economic history.
Subjects:
Grain trade > Europe.
Grain trade > Government policy > Europe.
Grain trade > Deregulation > Europe.
Grain trade.
Grain trade > Deregulation.
Grain trade > Government policy.
Europe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Bread and Enlightenment: the quest for price stability and free trade in eighteenth-century Europe; 2 Markets, mortality and human capabilities; 3 Harvest fluctuations, storage and grain-price responses; 4 Market failures and the regulation of grain markets: a new interpretation; 5 Market integration and the stabilisation of grain prices in Europe, 1500 ... 1900.
  • 6 Authoritarian liberalism and the decline of grain market regulation in Europe, 1760 ... 1860Sources; Bibliography; Index.