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Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Merchants.
16. Cattle for beads : The archaeology of historical contact and trade on the Namib Coast
Sammanfattning : Early contacts between indigenous pastoralists at Walvis Bay on the Namib Coast and Western seafarers are poorly documented and little understood. Trade augmented regional exchange networks with a range, of archaeologically visible and easily identifiable objects. LÄS MER
17. Gästriklands bergsmän, Kronan och handelskapitalet : Aktörer och institutionella spelregler i bergsmansbruket, 1650-1870
Sammanfattning : This investigation was originally based on the family archives of the bergsmän (iron producing peasants) in the parishes of Torskåer and Ovansjö in south-west Gästrikland. They gave an insight into a rather unknown proto-industry, run since medieval times by peasant households and flourishing in the 18th and 19th centuries. LÄS MER
18. Fasta förbindelser : En studie av låntagare hos sparbanken och informella kreditgivare i Sala 1860-1910
Sammanfattning : The major question in this thesis is where private persons borrowed on a local credit market in 1860-1910. This study has focused on informal lenders (in other research often referred to as private bankers), from whom most of private persons borrowed during the 19th century, and the savings bank in Sala. LÄS MER
19. Kanalbyggarna och staten : Offentliga vattenbyggnadsföretag i Sverige från medeltiden till 1810
Sammanfattning : The Canal issue was on the political agenda in Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1810. That year represents the starting point of the Göta Canal construction and a break in political and scientific canal discussions in Sweden. This dissertation is a contribution to the Swedish history of infrastructure and construction technology. LÄS MER
20. Essays on contracts and social preferences
Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with the problems of optimal grading, employee performance evaluation by unaccountable managers, and the evolution of inequity-averse preferences. The purpose is to explain certain stylized facts related to these problems, and this is attempted with the help of contract-theoretic models. LÄS MER