Quakers, coercion and pre-modern growth: why friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early Atlantic trade expansion
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Keywords
institutions; Quakers; early modern trade; merchants; religion; Atlantic;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- N33 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N73 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services - - - Europe: Pre-1913
- N93 - Economic History - - Regional and Urban History - - - Europe: Pre-1913
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-GRO-2014-12-29 (Economic Growth)
- NEP-HIS-2014-12-29 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-HPE-2014-12-29 (History and Philosophy of Economics)
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