Mariners and Markets
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In this volume, eminent economist Charles Kindleberger sets out to challenge the widespread belief that the market for seafarers, in the days before steam, was efficient, conforming more or less to a strong prior belief in the neo-classical economic model of supply and demand.
Maritime history is traditionally strewn with references to crimping or shanghaiing, naval press-gangs, desertion, mutiny, marooning and shipwrecks due to drunkenness...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0814746446
ISBN13:9780814746448
Release Date:May 1992
Publisher:New York University Press
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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