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This is not only a biography of an exceptional personality, but a meticulously researched analysis of the seventeenth-century business world. Richard Grassby exploits the extraordinary wealth of documentation available to establish how Sir Dudley North made his fortune in the Levant commodity trade and through usury. North's works, here published for the first time, reveal the breadth of his intellectual interests.

In this volume, noted economic historian Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits, and the future of capitalism. Grassby examines its numerous and often conflicting definitions, and he tests alternative models of capitalism against the historical record to establish when, where, how, and why modern economies and societies emerged.

A comprehensive study of the business community in a pre-industrial economy.

Reconstructs the lives of urban business families during England's emergence as a world economic power.

This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England’, s emergence as a world economic power. Using a broad cross-section of archival, rather than literary, sources, it tests the orthodox view that the family as an institution was transformed by capitalism and individualism. The approach is both quantitative and qualitative. A database of 28, 000 families h...

In this volume, noted economic historian Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits, and the future of capitalism. Grassby examines its numerous and often conflicting definitions, and he tests alternative models of capitalism against the historical record to establish when, where, how, and why modern economies and societies emerged.

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