Thrift stores and the Gilded Age shopper -- Dressing Dada and the rise of flea markets -- Garage sales and suburban subversiveness -- The invention of vintage clothing -- Elective poverty and postwar politics -- Genderfuck and the boyfriend look -- Connoisseurs of trash in a world full of it --...

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Acknowledgements -- What is a market? -- Markets as metonyms of urban transformation : East London -- Markets and place-image : Rio de Janeiro -- Markets as unremarkable and remarkable places : Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Beijing -- Dis/placing markets through urban renewal : Sydney -- The...

Preface -- Introduction -- Some opening thoughts -- Why a book about Yiwu? -- Getting to Yiwu and what I found once I was there -- Yiwu's developmental background -- In what ways is Yiwu special? -- Some special challenges facing Yiwu -- A focus on Yiwu's foreign population -- Trying to make...

"The Ancient Maya Marketplace, edited by Eleanor M. King, reviews the debate on prehispanic Maya markets. The volume's contributors challenge the model of a non-commercialized Maya economy and offer compelling new evidence for the existence and identification of ancient marketplaces among the...

In der internationalen Bekleidungsindustrie wird heute mit einer Vielzahl zeit- sowie mengenbezogener Verknappungsinstrumente auf Produktebene, vermeintlich exklusiver Einkaufserlebnisse und einem immer schnelleren Kollektionsrhythmus versucht, Kunden zu inspirieren und die Illusion von...

We study the effect of living in an internally displaced people's (IDP) camp on economic activity choices in post war northern Uganda. As the decision to relocate from a camp is voluntary, camp residents may be different from returnees. We merge household data with micro-level conflict data to...

This paper studies the market microstructure of pre-industrial Europe. In particular we investigate the institution of the broker in markets and fairs, and develop a unique data set of approximately 1100 sets of brokerage rules in 42 merchant towns in Central and Western Europe from the late...

Diese Studie trägt zur Erforschung von Institutional Workin Marktkonstitutionsprozessen bei. Ich zeige, wie gezieltes, koordiniertes Handeln unter Ungewissheit durch Praktiken organisiert wird, die die Ungewissheit tolerierbar machen. Ausgehend von den jüngsten Erkenntnissen der...

"This important new study examines the market trade of medieval England from a new perspective, by providing a wide-ranging critique of the moral and legal imperatives that underpinned retail trade. James Davis shows how market-goers were influenced not only by practical and economic...