Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy : Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe

Historically, for sustaining and reproducing their economic lives, people have obtained goods and services through various ways. How did people tackle issues that the market did not handle well? This volume compares early modern efforts to provide "public goods"-defined in contraposition t...

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Other Authors: Tanimoto, Masayuki (Editor), Bin Wong, R. (Editor)
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Published: Oakland University of California Press 2019
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