1st Edition
Market Ethics and Practices, c.1300–1850
Part I: Principles and regulations
James Davis, "The ethics of arbitrage and forestalling across the late medieval world"
Martha Howell, "Whose ‘common good’? Parisian market regulation, c. 1300–1800"
Craig Muldrew, "Self-control and savings: Adam Smith and the creation of modern capital"
Christopher Tomlins, "Demonic ambiguities: Enchantment and disenchantment in Nat Turner’s Virginia"
Part II: Practices and microhistories
Daniel Vickers, "Neighbours and hedges: Shopkeeping in early New England"
Julie Hardwick, "Parasols and poverty: Conjugal marriage, global economy, and rethinking the consumer revolution"
Nuala Zahedieh, "Trust in illicit markets: The role of Jewish merchants in Jamaica’s Spanish American trade"
Pierre Gervais, "In union there was strength: The legal protection of eighteenth-century merchant partnerships in England and France"
Robert S. DuPlessis, "Commercial practices at the margins of the merchant economy"
David Harris Sacks, "‘To winne them by fayre meanes’: The ethics of exchange in the making of the early English Atlantic"
Biography
Simon Middleton (College of William and Mary) is author of From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York (2006) and co-editer of Class Matters (2008). He is working on a book investigating the introduction of paper money to colonial America.
James E. Shaw (University of Sheffield) is a historian who focuses on the relationship of legal structures (laws, practices, institutions) to the daily practices of economic life. His books include The Justice of Venice (2006) and Making and Marketing Medicines in Renaissance Florence (2011).
