[ExI] The Catholic Impact (was Re: Origin of ethics and morals)T

[Stefano Vaj]

2012/1/3 Tom Nowell <nebathenemi at yahoo.co.uk>

> Actually, Holland and England had much weaker craft guilds politically,
> meaning they were free to adapt working practices as new technologies
> arose, whereas German and Italian guilds, with their strong restrictions on
> who could do what work and who was allowed to subcontract slowed progress a
> lot.
>

The history of late middle-age guilds is however fascinating.

In fact, the idealised guild described by Richard A. Posner, if I am not
mistaken in Overcoming the Law, is pretty persuasive, and they invented
much before modern capitalism all the tricks that an antitrust authority
would object to, and then some.

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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