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Efficient Transactors or Rent-Seeking Monopolists? The Rationale for Early Chartered Trading Companies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

S. R. H. Jones  and
Simon P. Ville
S. R. H. Jones
Affiliation:
Senior Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economic Studies, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 4HN, Scotland
Simon P. Ville
Affiliation:
Reader in Economic History, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 56 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 898 - 915
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1996

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