The Market in History (Routledge Revivals)

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The Market in History (Routledge Revivals) is written by A.J.H. Latham and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317231988 (ISBN 10) and 9781317231981 (ISBN 13).

First published in 1986. The free market is often associated with liberty and individualism, and this connection has been made for more centuries than is generally realised. This essays collected in this book trace the development, importance and influence of the market as a dominating component of the shared human life from classical antiquity to the present. The authors, from various backgrounds, keep constantly in view the moral and political questions raised by the role of markets, as well as laying out succinctly what can be known or deduced about the actual operation of the market in Western and other cultures. This book will be of interest to students of economics and history.