Festpreise im europäischen Buchhandel des 15., 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Ursprünge eines preispolitischen Konzepts
Year: 1971
Author: Engelsing, Rolf
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 91 (1971), Iss. 1 : pp. 21–35
Abstract
Booksellers’ Price Fixing Policies from the 15th to the 17th Century
The invention of bookprinting was soon followed by important innovations in the field of booksellers’ sales and price policies, long before these policies became common in the wake of the industrial revolution of the 18th and 19th century. The author deals mainly with price fixing policies. He shows that under certain circumstances price fixing occured quite frequently from the end of the 15th until the middle of the 16th century in Italy, France and Germany. When in the 18th century in other sectors of the economy price fixing policies started or were about to be started, they had already become a common rule in the booksellers’ trade of that time. The fact that fixed prices in the booksellers’ trade were reality from the 15th to the 17th century indicates early tendencies for modernization of economy
Journal Article Details
Publisher Name: Global Science Press
Language: Multiple languages
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3790/schm.91.1.21
Journal of Contextual Economics – Schmollers Jahrbuch, Vol. 91 (1971), Iss. 1 : pp. 21–35
Published online: 1971-01
AMS Subject Headings: Duncker & Humblot
Copyright: COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press
Pages: 15