Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade

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Paul Seabright explores the evolution of global trade in goods, people and ideas.

Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade: Series 1: Fair Exchange

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Consumer protectors or greedy monopolists? Paul Seabright explores the role of the guilds.

Paul Seabright explores our trading past: guilds and trade in medieval and early modern Europe. From 2018.

Consumer protectors or greedy monopolists? 

Paul Seabright is joined by Sheilagh Ogilvie, Professor of Economic History at Cambridge, to take a fresh look at what guilds really did for trade in medieval and early modern Europe, and lessons for trade today.

Producer: Chris Ledgard.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in January 2018.

Conflict and Co-operation: A History of Trade: Series 1

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