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Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680–1830

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  • Pierre Gervais

    (CRAN - Centre de Recherche sur l'Amérique du Nord - CREW - CREW - Center for Research on the English-speaking World - EA 4399 - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3)

  • Yannick Lemarchand

    (LEMNA - Laboratoire d'économie et de management de Nantes Atlantique - IEMN-IAE Nantes - Institut d'Économie et de Management de Nantes - Institut d'Administration des Entreprises - Nantes - UN - Université de Nantes)

  • Dominique Margairaz

    (IDHE - Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l'Economie - ENS Cachan - École normale supérieure - Cachan - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - UP8 - Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis - UPN - Université Paris Nanterre - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Merchant activity across Europe, America and China was vital to economic growth during the long eighteenth century. Using a unique data set from accounts and correspondence, contributors show the fragmented nature of merchant activity and the importance of trust-based social and cultural networks. Case studies from the ‘Age of Commerce' include Franco-British attempts to recall Chinese debt in 1779–80, the price signals between Spain and colonial South America and the risk avoidance strategies of tobacco-planters in early national period America.

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  • Pierre Gervais & Yannick Lemarchand & Dominique Margairaz, 2014. "Merchants and Profit in the Age of Commerce, 1680–1830," Post-Print halshs-01150351, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-01150351
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    Cited by:

    1. Pierre Gervais & Martin Quinn, 2016. "Costing in the early Industrial Revolution: gradual change to cost calculations at US cloth mills in the 1820s," Accounting History Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 26(3), pages 191-217, September.
    2. Nadia Matringe, 2016. "Ratio Pecuniam Parit Accounting and the making of financial markets in the Early Modern Age," Working Papers hal-01358129, HAL.

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