The recommended readings are available in the print version, or may be available via the link to your library's holdings.

Recommended readings (Machine generated): Akerlof, George A. (1970), 'The Market for "Lemons " Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 84 (3), 488-500. -- Anderton, Michael (ed.) (1999), Anglo-Saxon Trading Centres; Beyond the Emporia, Glasgow: Cruithne Press. -- Bang, Peter Fibiger (2008), The Roman Bazaar: A Comparative Study of Trade and Markets in a Tributary Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -- Casson, Mark (2003), The Entrepreneur: An Economic Theory, Revised edition, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. -- Casson, Mark (2010), 'Networks in Business and Economic History: A Theoretical Approach', in P.F. Perez and M.B. Rose (eds), Innovation and Entrepreneurial Networks in Europe, New York: Routledge, pp. 14-40. -- Dark, Ken (1995), Theoretical Archaeology, London: Duckworth. -- Davis, James (2007), 'Men as march with fote packes: Pedlars and freedom of mobility in late-medieval England', in P. Holden (ed.), Freedom of Movement in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 2003 Harlaxton Symposium, Donington, Lincs: Shaun Tyas. -- De Ligt, L. (1993), Fairs and Markets in the Roman Empire: Economic and Social Aspects of Periodic Trade in a Pre-industrial Society, Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben. -- Dolfsma, Wilfred and Anton Spithoven (2008), ' "Silent Trade " and the Supposed Continuum between OIE and NIE', Journal of Economic Issues, 42 (2), 517-26. -- Dyer, Christopher (1989), 'The Consumer and the Market in the Later Middle Ages', Economic History Review, 42, 305-27. -- Epstein, Stephan R. (1994), 'Regional Fairs, Institutional Innovation and Economic Growth in Late Medieval Europe', Economic History Review, 47 (3), 459-82. -- Furubotn, Eric G. and Rudolf Richter (eds) (2010), The New Institutional Economics of Markets, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. -- Granger, Clive W.J. and C.M. Elliott (1967), 'A Fresh Look at Wheat Prices and Markets in the Eighteenth Century', Economic History Review, 20 (2), 257-65. -- Hayek, Friedrich von (1991), Economic Freedom, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. -- Hoyt, Elizabeth E. (1929), Primitive Trade: Its Psychology and Economics, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner. -- Kowaleski, Maryanne (1995), Local Markets and Regional Trade in Medieval Exeter, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. -- Kreps, David M. (1990), A Course in Microeconomic Theory, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf. -- Marshall, Alfred (1890), Principles of Economics, London: Macmillan. -- McCann, Philip (1998), The Economics of Industrial Location: A Logistics-Cost Approach, New York: Springer.

North, Douglass C. (1981), Structure and Change in Economic History, New York: W.W. Norton. -- Pestell, Tim and Katharina Ulmschneider (eds) (2003), Markets in Early Medieval Europe: Trading and 'Productive' Sites, 650-850, Bollington, Cheshire: Windgather Press. -- Smith, Adam (1776), An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Penn State electronic edition, accessed 30/10/09. -- Peter Temin (2002), 'Price Behavior in Ancient Babylon', Explorations in Economic History, 39 (1), January, 46-60 -- David W. Tandy (1997), 'Early Movements of Goods and of Greeks', in Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece, Chapter 3, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 59-83, references -- Joan M. Frayn (1993), 'Commodities Sold in the Markets', Markets and Fairs in Roman Italy: Their Social and Economic Importance from the Second Century BC to the Third Century AD, Chapter 4, Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 56-73 -- George C. Maniatis (2000), 'The Organizational Setup and Functioning of the Fish Market in Tenth-Century Constantinople', Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 54, 13-31a, 31b, 32-42 -- S.R.H. Jones (1993), 'Transaction Costs, Institutional Change, and the Emergence of a Market Economy in Later Anglo-Saxon England', Economic History Review, XLVI (4), November, 658-78 -- Richard H. Britnell (1993), 'Markets and Rules', in The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500, Chapter 4, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 79-101 -- Christopher Dyer (1989), 'The Consumer and the Market in the Later Middle Ages', Economic History Review, XLII (3), August, 305-27 -- Alwyn A. Ruddock (1951), 'The Organization of Trade', in Italian Merchants and Shipping in Southampton, 1270-1600, Chapter IV, Southampton, UK: University College, 94-116 -- Om Prakash (2004), 'The Indian Maritime Merchant, 1500-1800', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 47 (3), 435-57 -- Hugo van Driel (2003), 'The Role of Middlemen in the International Coffee Trade Since 1870: The Dutch Case', Business History, 45 (2), April, 77-101 -- Robert Sabatino Lopez (1964), 'Market Expansion: The Case of Genoa', Journal of Economic History, 24 (4), December, 445-64 -- James M. Murray (2005), 'Wool, Cloth, and Gold', in Bruges; Cradle of Capitalism, 1280-1390, Chapter 7, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 259-99, references -- Clé Lesger (2006), 'Amsterdam and the Organization of Trade', in The Rise of the Amsterdam Market and Information Exchange: Merchants, Commercial Expansion and Change in the Spatial Economy of the Low Countries c. 1550-1630, Chapter 5, Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 183-213, references [translated by J.C. Grayson] -- David Alexander (1970), 'Aspects of a Changing Retail Market', in Retailing in England during the Industrial Revolution, Chapter 1, London, UK: Athlone Press, 3-26 -- Gary Richardson (2004), 'Guilds, Laws, and Markets for Manufactured Merchandise in Late-Medieval England', Explorations in Economic History, 41 (1), January, 1-25 -- Ronald F. Homer (2002), 'The Pewterers' Company's Country Searches and the Company's Regulation of Prices', in Ian Anders Gadd and Patrick Wallis (eds), Guilds, Society and Economy in London, 1450-1800, Chapter 7, London, UK: Centre for Metropolitan History, 101-13

Amanda McLeod (2008), 'Quality Control: The Origins of the Australian Consumers' Association', Business History, 50 (1), January, 79-98 -- Carol H. Shiue and Wolfgang Keller (2007), 'Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution', American Economic Review, 97 (4), September, 1189-216 -- David S. Jacks (2006), 'What Drove 19th Century Commodity Market Integration?', Explorations in Economic History, 43 (3), July, 383-412 -- Barry K. Goodwin, Thomas J. Grennes and Lee A. Craig (2002), 'Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets', Explorations in Economic History, 39 (2), April, 154-82 -- S.R. Epstein (1994), 'Regional Fairs, Institutional Innovation, and Economic Growth in Late Medieval Europe', Economic History Review, XLVII (3), August, 459-82 -- James Masschaele (1997), 'The Quest for Markets', in Peasants, Merchants, and Markets: Inland Trade in Medieval England, 1150-1350, Chapter 6, New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 129-46, 256-8 -- Margaret Spufford (1984), 'Introduction', in The Great Reclothing of Rural England: Petty Chapmen and their Wares in the Seventeenth Century, Chapter 1, London, UK: The Hambledon Press, 1-22 -- R.W. Hoyle (2007), 'New Markets and Fairs in the Yorkshire Dales, 1550-1750', in P.S. Barnwell and Marilyn Palmer (eds), Post-Medieval Landscapes, Chapter 8, Oxford, UK: Windgather Press, 93-106 -- Patrick O'Flanagan (1985), 'Markets and Fairs in Ireland, 1600- 1800: Index of Economic Development and Regional Growth', Journal of Historical Geography, 11 (4), 364-78 -- Ian D. Whyte (1979), 'The Growth of Periodic Market Centres in Scotland 1600-1707', Scottish Geographical Magazine, 95 (1), April, 13-26 -- John R. Walton (1984), 'The Rise of Agricultural Auctioneering in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain', Journal of Historical Geography, 10 (1), 15-36 -- Polly Hill (1966), 'Notes on Traditional Market Authority and Market Periodicity in West Africa', Journal of African History, VII (2), 295-311 -- Ruth Mazo Karras (1989), 'The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England', Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 14 (2), Winter, 399-433 -- A.J. Arnold and J.M. Bidmead (2008), 'Going "to Paradise by Way of Kensal Green " A Most Unfit Subject for Trading Profit', Business History, 50 (3), May, 328-50 -- Charles R. Mayes (1957), 'The Sale of Peerages in Early Stuart England', Journal of Modern History, 29 (1), March, 21-37

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