Reviews for Management Laureates, Vol. 5

The average rating for Management Laureates, Vol. 5 based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-15 00:00:00 Laura Garay This is probably more of interest to an economic historian because of its myriad charts and numbers. I wasn't interested in the number bits so much since quantitative data is boring-to-no-end for the layperson. If you skim all that crap and focus on the nitty-gritty, it's a nice volume if a bit specific. The sections on specific commodities are interesting to a certain extent, before they devolve into charts. The best parts are the actual historical studies: the Hokkien diaspora in Manila and Nagasaki, the joint Sino-Japanese pirate raids on China; the controversy over the decline of the Silk Roads; trans-Sahara caravan routes; the Atlantic Slave trade-- Basically all the stuff that you've heard less about--those are the sections worth reading. If you've had your fill of goddamn studies of the Dutch East India Company, Spanish imperial currency outputs, and European powers pissing on each other's feet, than you'll really love about half this volume.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-12-05 00:00:00 S Murphy 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.