Management Laureates, Vol. 5 Book

Interesting but dense collection of essays that explores long-distance trading during the early modern period. It attempts to do this without assuming a Euro-centric perspective with partial success.

Most of the essays are interesting in their own way, but the second half of the work is more engaging through its comparisons of global merchant communities, its investigation of the Central Asian caravan trade during the 16th and 17th centuries, and its exploration of Indian commerce before European arrival. The first half of the work is more heavily quantitative, looking at the impact of global trade networks on different European nations.