Mariners and Markets - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814746446 ISBN 13: 9780814746448

Verlag: NEW YORK UNIV PR, 1993

Inhaltsangabe

In this volume, eminent economist Charles Kindleberger sets out to challenge the widespread belief that the market for seafarers, in the days before steam, was efficient, conforming more or less to a strong prior belief in the neo-classical economic model of supply and demand.

Maritime history is traditionally strewn with references to crimping or shanghaiing, naval press-gangs, desertion, mutiny, marooning and shipwrecks due to drunkenness or negligence. In contrast, Kindleberger examines issues of recruitment and pay, the treatment of seamen, and the question of government intervention and its impact on efficiency, in the engaging narrative style that is his trademark.

Offering an original and informative account of the markets for seafarers in the age of sail, Mariners and Markets will be welcomed by economic and maritime historians alike.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charles P. Kindelberger is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: NEW YORK UNIV PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0814746446
• ISBN 13: 9780814746448
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 232
• Herausgeber: Kindleberger Charles P.
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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