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Thomas Moser and I may be talking past each other. He suggests that
legal history begins with a concern about markets. I do not know much
about that subject, but I suspect that the law, like the church, was
concerned with controlling the spread of the market in order to mintain
traditional society.
Tony Brewer tells us, "Agriculture was thoroughly commercialized by the
sixteenth/seventeenth century." I do not deny that there was
commercialization, but what does that mean? If a women took a few eggs
to market, is her farm a commercial operation? Or do we think of the
commercialization as operating on the periphery of their agricultural
economy?
I agree with Olav Velthuis that we cannot easily divide all societies
into commercial/non-commercial categories, but Polanyi's work might help
us to put the manic commericalization of our world into perspective.
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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