Reinert, Sophus A. (Author)
Fredona, Robert (Author)
Business History Review
Volume: 94
Issue: 1
Pages: 125-177
Edition Details: Special Issue: Italy and the Origins of Capitalism
Language: English
Using materials from the important collection of Medici manuscripts donated to Harvard Business School by Harry Gordon Selfridge, this paper explores the geopolitics of the transformation of raw wool into finished cloth, and the role played in that process by Medici entrepreneurs, their guild, and their government. It aims to show that the history of political economy cannot truly be understood without business history. Successful business practices used by Medici entrepreneurs were first theorized by Giovanni Botero and others as what would become an “Italian model” in political economy, a model that had a profoundly wide-ranging impact, and that puts the lie to the commonplace in the history of ideas that the Italian Renaissance, so precocious in other fields, was silent on the topic of political economy.
...MoreArticle Robert Fredona; Sophus A. Reinert (Spring 2020) Italy and the Origins of Capitalism. Business History Review (pp. 5-38).
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