This article discusses agency problems in a period of market boom. It takes Portuguese
trade with Brazil as a case study to discuss the impact of colonial market expansion on …

This microhistory explores the activities of one of the many trade associations created in the
nineteenth century in the US. Qualitative evidence is used to engage with the concepts of …

In recent years, a growing number of historians have, to varying degrees, drawn on socio-
economic theory to analyse and explain the organisation of long-distance trade in the early …

In 1737, the receiver-general of Cornwall stated that—now and for many years past the
importation of Portugal gold coin hath been so great in Cornwall that very little specie of any …

The concepts of'trust'and'social capital'have enjoyed increasing vogue now for more than a
decade. History has been mobilized to support them in various ways. Past societies are …

Ideas about international growth and development have been strongly influenced by
Western European and North American economic ideas as well as by their actual …

" Trust" now forms a central part of the research program in many social science, history, and
related disciplines. Foundations have programs on trust, scholars meet for conferences on …

Social capital—defined here as the norms and networks that create the necessary trust for
people to cooperate to solve collective-action problems—also has negative effects. They are …

This essay examines the role of 'trust'and cooperation in early modern long-distance trade.
While most literature on the subject posits trust as a given attribute of long-distance …

In arguing for social capital's relevance to business activities, I once set aside day trading–
along with outright gambling–as an exception. Day trading's practitioners operate …