The Price of Bread: Regulating the Market in the Dutch Republic

by Jan de Vries

Book Overview

A prime contemporary concern - how to maintain fair market relations - is addressed through this study of the regulation of bread prices. This was the single most important economic reality of Europe's daily life in the early modern period. Jan de Vries uses the Dutch Republic as a case study of how the market functioned and how the regulatory system evolved and acted. The ways in which consumer behaviour adapted to these structures, and the state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108476384
• ISBN13: 9781108476386
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 534 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.4" x 9.2"