IMC 2018: Sessions
Session 1005: Towards Market Integration: Central Concepts in Pre-Modern Economic History
Wednesday 4 July 2018, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Emil Skaarup, Saxo-Instituttet, Københavns Universitet |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Angela Huang, Forschungsstelle für die Geschichte der Hanse und des Ostseeraums, Lübeck |
| Paper 1005-a | Prospect Theory and Subsistence Economies (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Economics - Rural, Historiography - Medieval, Mentalities |
| Paper 1005-b | Different Conceptions of the Meaning of the Word 'Capitalism' in Economic History (Language: English) Index terms: Economics - General, Economics - Trade, Historiography - Modern Scholarship, Political Thought |
| Paper 1005-c | Specialisation and Modes of Production in Medieval Northern Europe: A Study of Beer Production (Language: English) Index terms: Daily Life, Economics - Trade, Historiography - Medieval, Technology |
| Abstract | We still have precious little understanding of how pre-modern societies and economies worked. In the light of incomplete yet complex evidence, models and theories help make sense of the many isolated observations the sources allow us. The three papers of this session will refine our understanding of the dynamics of late medieval and early modern market exchange by looking into specialization within medieval beer production, behavioral economics within peasant societies and different interpretations of what constitutes capitalistic practices. The papers each present different reasons for the transition from subsistence-oriented economies towards market economies. |