An Open Economy
The Berwick Shipping Trade, 1311–1373
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10489969 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Michael Donnelly (corresponding author), Joe Donnelly |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-31 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Scottish historical review/ The Scottish historical review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0036-9241 • E-ISSN: 1750-0222 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/shr.2017.0312 |
| OpenAlex | W2604798022 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 16 |
The argument of this paper is that studies of an earlier world have something to tell modern political economy about the way economies develop and that, while history must draw on economic insights, economics ought not to be a science without time. The paper generalises from one sphere of trade, known from the Berwick ‘particulars of custom’, to national income, which can be estimated (or guessed at) from ecclesiastical taxations. Where studies of medieval Scotland have taken a distinctly theoretical, legal turn, it may do no harm to discuss the practicalities of concrete economic evidence: cargoes, merchants, ships, sailors and so on. The mechanics of customs administration can also be followed in the particulars. The taxations suggest that the immediate demand-side impacts of the export trade had longer-term supply-side effects, as landlords developed their sheep farming interests. The export trade tied in with foreign taxations, generating funds for transmission overseas. The opening of the economy had the potential for the usual multiplier effects but these were counter-balanced by selfish, and hugely damaging, English interference in Scotland's trade in Europe. Fourteenth-century Scots put up stiff resistance but could not entirely escape the tribulations brought on their heads by English decisions
Economics · Economy · Harm · International trade · Political science · Scots · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Studies of British Isles · Law · Scottish History and National Identity
English Seigniorial Agriculture, 1250–1450
The perils and dangers of these knights (and undead peasants)
The transportation system of medieval England and Wales
The long hundred in medieval and early modern Scotland
The evidence of finds for the circulation and use of coins in medieval Scotland
Re-used Bedrock Ballast in King's Lynn's 'Town Wall' and the Norfolk Port's Medieval Trading Links
Ethnicity and the Writing of Medieval Scottish history
The grain trade in northern Europe before 1350
Trade and traders
The Commercialisation of English Society, 1000-1500
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |