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If these fundamental institutions were right, then landlords, merchants, and manufacturers would invest and improve.
But the affinity between Islamic attitudes, rulers, merchants, and craftsmen that made Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and Samarkand jewels of High Medieval urban civilization vanished long ago.
Afterwards, many of my relatives, prosperous Indian
merchants
who had been settled in Myanmar for generations, abandoned homes and businesses in order to save their skins as chaos enveloped the city, later renamed Yangon.
In centuries past, revolutionaries were farmers or blacksmiths or merchants; now they are Google executives and Facebook friends.
In my old-fashioned way, I rather disapprove of celebrating “God rest you merry merchants” day.
A few days after the deadline of April 15, bulldozers moved in, flattening the shops, previously dismantled by the departing Afghan
merchants.
The big castes – from the supposedly Frankish Nobles of the Sword and Nobles of the Robe to proto-bourgeois
merchants
and Gallo-Roman villeins – all conferred upon their members small liberties and a measure of personal autonomy in exchange for obligations to the state.
Harnessing this technology to expand financial inclusion would be economically empowering, particularly for smallholder farmers and
merchants
in rural communities, who could use their mobile phones to access market-price data, transfer cash, make retail purchases, deposit income, and pay bills – all while tending their fields or shops.
The sixteenth-century Habsburgs borrowed – at very high interest rates – from Florentine, Genovese, and Augsburg
merchants.
Only when tensions reached fever pitch did the nobility and
merchants
realize that the cure would be worse than the disease.
By buying goods from China, Polo was promoting economic wellbeing in Venice: consumers benefited from goods they could not acquire domestically – at least not at such a low cost – and
merchants
were profiting by re-selling Chinese imports at a markup.
Villagers and
merchants
from both sides conducted a brisk business and border trade unfettered by the authorities.
Voltaire transferred the image of bloodsucking vampires to speculators, merchants, kings, and monks.
But entrepreneurs face daunting barriers, such as inadequate logistics, lack of consumer financing, poorly trained workers, consumer distrust of new technologies, high-cost marketing channels, backlash from existing
merchants
or moneylenders, and under-developed regulation.
Even Islam – which mostly spread in the wake of military conquests in the Middle East, India, and North Africa – expanded rather peacefully into Southeast Asia in the footsteps of merchants, scholars and mystics.
As the late historian Philip Curtin documented, from the beginning of urban life, millennia ago, trade typically involved networks of co-ethnic
merchants
living among aliens.
The king seized the estates, and sometimes the person, of wealthy lords or
merchants
and demanded hefty payments for their release.
Igbo
merchants
and artisans crowd the famous market of Kano and other northern cities.
Another source of fiscal and economic distortion comes from the semi-official merchants, or bazaaris, whose businesses account for 10% of GDP, and who enjoy, together with various bureaucrats, special privileges such as access to hard currencies at special rates.
These structural features fit well with Chinese merchants, who did not want to see their companies grow so large that they attracted official attention.
Good and Bad CapitalismPARIS – The reality of market exchange – direct transactions between
merchants
and customers – appeared gradually 3,000 or 4,000 years ago.
Starbucks, like all merchants, pays those fees, which are not fully transparent to consumers – but which of course add to the cost of a cup of coffee.
Over the course of the years, they were the masons who built our homes, they washed dishes in the restaurants where we ate, they were the
merchants
from whom we used to buy goods, and workers in the greenhouses of the kibbutzim.
By contrast, in the US, Europe, and Japan, roughly 70% of the market is composed of e-tailers running their own Web sites, whether online-only
merchants
like Amazon or traditional brick-and-mortar retailers such as Carrefour, Dixons, and Walmart.
Market-dominant banks still extract hefty fees on debit- and credit-card transactions from merchants, who are forced to pay a multiple of what a truly competitive market would bear.
It was not just a cause dear to bankers, merchants, or the young John Maynard Keynes.
But casual evidence suggests that the region’s shoppers, merchants, and investors generally consider local Christians to be more trustworthy than local Muslims.
If the Green Movement is to mount a serious challenge to the government it must incorporate support from bazaar merchants, workers in major industries, transportation unions, and government workers.
Merchants
of Doubt , a new book by Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway set for release in mid-2010, will be an authoritative account of their misbehavior.
There has never been a shortage of snake-oil merchants: Donizetti wrote an opera, L’Elisir D’Amore, about one of them advertising a love potion in a nonsensical patter.
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