The Return of the Guilds: Towards a Global History of the Guilds in Pre-industrial Times

Lucassen, Jan; Moor, Tine De; Zanden, J.L. van

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“…As noted, given the potential for market failure due to incomplete contracts, incentive incompatibility, and poor information, agreements on intergenerational transmission of skills needed enforcement, regulation, and supervision. In a setting of weak political systems, the guilds stepped in and created a governance system that was functional and productive (Epstein and Prak 2008;Lucassen, de Moor, and van Zanden 2008;van Zanden and Prak 2013b). In a posthumously published essay, Epstein stated that the details of the apprenticeship contract had to be enforced through the craft guilds, which "overcame the externalities in human capital formation" by punishing both masters and apprentices who violated their contracts (Epstein 2013, pp.…”

Section: Apprenticeship and Guildsmentioning

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy*

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Doepke²,

Mokyr³

2017

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge help explain the European advantage. We build a model of technological progress in a preindustrial economy that emphasizes the person-to-person transmission of tacit knowledge. The young learn as apprentices from the old. Institutions such as the family, the clan, the guild, and the market organize who learns from whom. We argue that medieval European institutions such as guilds, and specific features such as journeymanship, can explain the rise of Europe relative to regions that relied on the transmission of knowledge within closed kinship systems (extended families or clans).

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Section: Apprenticeship and Guildsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy*

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Doepke²,

Mokyr³

2017

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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“…Devletin temel rolü, loncaların üretim ve satış yapabilmeleri için gerekli olan şartları sağlamak ve var olan şartları iyileştirmekti. 92 Ancak, şartlar ne kadar iyileştirilirse iyileştirilsin lonca tipi örgütlenmede üretim el emeğine dayanıyordu. Batı dünyasının endüstrileşme sürecinde geleneksel üretim yöntemleri terk ediliyordu.…”

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Güripek¹

2020

Journal of History and Future

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“…It also applied in an existential sense. Like the new monastic orders, guilds provided a new meaningful framework for life, endowing it with goals and aims, along with the secrets and rituals that were able to sustain them (Lucassen et al, 2008).…”

Section: The Medieval Commonsmentioning

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Capitalism and the Commons

Arvidsson

2019

Theory, Culture & Society

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This article investigates the potential role of the commons in the future transformation of digital capitalism by comparing it to the role of the commons in the transition to capitalism. In medieval and early modern Europe the commons supported gradual social and technological innovation as well as a new civil society organized around the combination of commons-based petty production and new ideals of freedom and equality. Today the new commons generated by the global real subsumption of ordinary life processes are supporting similar forms of commons-based petty production. After positioning the new petty producers within the framework of the crisis of digital capitalism, the article concludes by extrapolating a number of hypothetical scenarios for their role in its future transformation.

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The Return of the Guilds: Towards a Global History of the Guilds in Pre-industrial Times

Cited by 40 publications

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy*

Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Preindustrial Economy*

XV. ve XVI. Yüzyıl Osmanlı, Avrupa ve Çin Loncalarına Dair Karşılaştırmalı Bir Bakış

Capitalism and the Commons

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