Markets and their Agents

Markets and their Agents

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Arbeitskreis für spätmittelalterliche Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Veranstaltungsort
Hirschgässlein 21, 4051 Basel
Ort
Basel
Land
Switzerland
Vom - Bis
21.06.2018 - 22.06.2018
Deadline
04.04.2018
Von
Ulla Kypta

Markets and the agents who shaped and created them are the subject of the 6th annual conference of the research group on premodern economic history. Markets feature prominently in recent research. Discussions cover the questions, for example, how a market can be grasp as a place, an event or a mechanism of exchange, or whether premodern economies have just hosted markets or if some of them can even be regarded as market economies.

The conference in Basel will now turn to the agents who forged and connected markets. Exchange was done between persons and with the help of persons: Artisans, retailers and poor people tried to better their living conditions by engaging on the market, merchants interconnected different markets, urban personnel (such as brokers, men working at the public scales, or the town council as a whole) regulated and facilitated exchange.

By focusing on economic practices and the agents who performed them, the conference aims at analyzing the specific characteristics of premodern markets, at studying the reasons why people became active on the market and at scrutinizing the institutions which formed exchange processes and were in turn shaped by them.

Contributions can cover the following questions, among others:
- Which types of agents (people, groups of people, corporations) interacted on or between premodern markets? How did they shape markets and the integration between markets?
- How did market exchange alter or modify the options that economic agents faced?
- Which rules, norms and interests shaped the actions that were carried out on premodern markets?
- What kind of actions can be considered as market exchange?
- How did market exchange differ from other forms of exchange, for example donations or taxes?
- How, when and where did markets develop into a market economy (or vice versa)?
- How were regulations justified and how were they put into praxis?
- Did actions on the market or in a market economy somehow change the course of economic development?

We invite proposals for papers that discuss and analyze the agents on markets. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes. Please send a short sketch of your proposed paper (half a page to a page) and a short CV to: ulla.kypta@unibas.ch, deadline: 04th April 2018.

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Ulla Kypta

Hirschgässlein 21
CH-4051 Basel

ulla.kypta@unibas.ch

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