This comprehensive study explores all aspects of the English business community as it developed between 1590 and 1720. Drawing on largely untapped records of private firms as well as on institutional archives, Richard Grassby describes and explains the economic and technical structure of business in a pre-industrial economy and examines the ways in which social values, demographic factors, the family, the state and religion distributed talent, trained and motivated businessmen and determined their life style.  Meer

This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England's emergence as a world economic power.  Meer

This comprehensive study explores all aspects of the English business community as it developed between 1590 and 1720. Drawing on largely untapped records of private firms as well as on institutional archives, Richard Grassby describes and explains the economic and technical structure of business in a pre-industrial economy and examines the ways in which social values, demographic factors, the family, the state and religion distributed talent, trained and motivated businessmen and determined their life style.  Meer

This uncompromisingly empirical study reconstructs the public and private lives of urban business families during the period of England's emergence as a world economic power.  Meer

In this text, Richard Grassby investigates the origins and evolution of the idea of capitalism to illustrate for readers the true nature, merits and the future of capitalism.  Meer