Benedetto Cotrugli – The Book of the Art of Trade With Scholarly Essays from Niall Ferguson, Giovanni Favero, Mario Infelise, Tiziano Zanato and Vera Ribaudo /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carraro, Carlo (Editor), Favero, Giovanni (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Business ethics.; Accounting.; Economic history.; Economics.; Culture - Economic aspects.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Economic History.; Cultural Economics.; Economic Systems.; Financial Accounting.; Business Ethics.

This is the first English translation of Benedetto Cotrugli's The Book of the Art of Trade, a lively account of the life of a Mediterranean merchant in the Early Renaissance, written in 1458. The book is an impassioned defense of the legitimacy of mercantile practices, and includes the first sc...