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    Reinert, Sophus A.Remove Reinert, Sophus A. →

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    • 11 Dec 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

    by Staff

    Global free trade is not the natural order of things, so it needs to be carefully tended to and maintained. Sophus Reinert and Dante Roscini discuss trade over time and what history teaches. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 29 Nov 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

    by Julia Hanna

    Does a 15th century Italian merchant have something to teach leaders about the proper ways to conduct business? Sophus Reinert and Dante Roscini discuss the first English translation of The Book of the Art of Trade. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 26 Sep 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Merchants and the Origins of Capitalism

    by Sophus A. Reinert and Robert Fredona

    This chapter shows how a new kind of predominantly Italian merchants emerged as global figures during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Then as now, they pooled capital and shared risk to enrich themselves and their polities, utilized the infrastructure and markets that they helped make, and created new legal and financial instruments to facilitate their ventures.

    • 31 Aug 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

    by Julia Hanna

    Professor Sophus Reinert and colleagues dig into the lasting power of Franklin’s treatise on industry and frugality and its influence on capitalism. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

    • 07 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

    by Sean Silverthorne

    A British merchant's long-forgotten work, An Essay on the State of England, could lead to a rethinking of how modern economies developed in Europe and America, and add historical perspective on the proper relationship between government and business. An interview with business historian Sophus A. Reinert. Open for comment; 0 Comments.

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