Grain Markets in Europe, 1500 1900: Integration and Deregulation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521650960)

Karl Persson surveys a broad sweep of economic history, examining one of the most crucial markets--grain--in order to demonstrate more general points. Grain Markets in Europe traces the markets' early regulation, their poor performance and the frequent market failures. Price volatility caused by harvest shocks was of major concern for central and local government because of the unrest it caused. Persson uses insights from development economics, explores contemporary economic thought on the advantages of free trade, and measures the extent of market integration using the latest econometric methods.

Author: Karl Gunnar Persson
ISBN-10: 0521650968
ISBN-13: 9780521650960
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/09/1999
Pages: 194
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 9.38h x 6.22w x 0.64d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 09/01/2000 pg. 183