Guilds & Early Capitalism
Guilds, banks, and bubbles: how early modern Europe invented modern finance and industry.
Articles on Guilds & Early Capitalism (5)
Glass and Guilds: The Unseen Foundations of Venice’s Early Modern Economic Power
How Murano glassmaking and Venice’s guilds built the republic’s economic power in the sixteenth and...
What Was the Guild System? How Guilds Ran Europe’s Economy
Why were guilds created, how did the guild system control early modern trade, and why did guilds decline? A...
Secrets of the Furnace: Daily Life Inside the Murano Glassmakers’ Guild, 1600
Inside the Murano glassmakers’ guild in 1600: how secrecy, kinship and Venetian law shaped daily life at the...
The Bank of England’s Founding: Financing a New Era in 18th-Century Britain
William Paterson’s 1694 wartime loan scheme to fund England’s war with France became the Bank of England — and...
Tulip Mania in the Dutch Republic: The First Major Financial Bubble and Its Sudden Collapse
How tulip bulb prices in the 1630s Dutch Republic became the first great speculative bubble, and why the...
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