Mariners and Markets

by Charles P. Kindleberger

Book Overview

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"