Efficient Transactors or Rent-Seeking Monopolists? The Rationale for Early Chartered Trading Companies
- 1 December 1996
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- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 56 (4) , 898-915
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700017514
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