• DOI:10.1080/10427710120049237
Corpus ID: 13298305

A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination

@inproceedings{Richardson2001ATO,
  title={A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination},
  author={G. Richardson},
  year={2001}
}

G. Richardson

Published 2001

Economics

Two fields of thought evolved simultaneously, but scholars in one ignored the evolution of the other. The first was the theory of monopoly, whose broad nineteenth-century definition narrowed considerably during the twentieth century. Concepts contained in its original incarnation attained independence when the Chamberlain-Robinson revolution introduced the modern lexicon of industrial organization. The second was the theory of guilds, originally devised when monopoly's definition was vague and… CONTINUE READING

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