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Commerce

Here are entered works on trade, both foreign and domestic. Works on the commerce of countries, cities, etc. are entered under headings of the type place -- Commerce, further subdivided by place, if appropriate. If so subdivided, a second heading is assigned with the place names in reverse position, e.g. 1. Canada -- Commerce -- United States. 2. United States -- Commerce -- Canada.

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• Economics

• Merchants
• Business
• Transportation

• Commerce -- Congresses
• Commerce -- Directories
• Commerce -- Early works to 1800
• Commerce -- History
• Commerce -- Periodicals
• Commerce -- Political aspects
• Commerce -- United States
• Accounting
• Black market
• Colonies -- Commerce
• Commerce in literature
• Commercial law
• Commercial statistics
• Commodification
• Competition
• Electronic commerce
• Exchange
• Fairs
• Foreign trade and employment
• Indians of North America -- Commerce
• Industrial promotion
• International trade
• Interstate commerce
• Markets
• Retail trade
• Wholesale trade
• Africa -- Commerce
• Africa, West -- Commerce
• Alberta -- Commerce
• America -- Commerce
• Asia -- Commerce
• Australia -- Commerce
• Babylonia -- Commerce
• Baghdad (Iraq) -- Commerce
• Black Sea -- Commerce
• Blood Indian Tribe -- Commerce
• Bristol (England) -- Commerce
• British -- Commerce
• British Somaliland -- Commerce
• California -- Commerce
• Canada -- Commerce
• Caracas (Venezuela) -- Commerce
• Chicago (Ill.) -- Commerce
• China -- Commerce
• Confederate States of America -- Commerce
• Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Commerce
• Danube River -- Commerce
• Developing countries -- Commerce
• East Asia -- Commerce
• El Salvador -- Commerce
• England -- Commerce
• Europe -- Commerce
• European Union countries -- Commerce
• France -- Commerce
• French -- Commerce
• Gdańsk (Poland) -- Commerce
• Great Britain -- Commerce
• Haiti -- Commerce
• Hartford (Conn.) -- Commerce
• Iceland -- Commerce
• India -- Commerce
• Indians of Central America -- Commerce
• Indonesia -- Commerce
• Iraq -- Commerce
• Japan -- Commerce
• Jews -- Commerce
• Latin America -- Commerce
• Latvia -- Commerce
• London (England) -- Commerce
• Maine -- Commerce
• Maring (Papua New Guinean people) -- Commerce
• Massachusetts -- Commerce
• Mayas -- Commerce
• Middle East -- Commerce
• Mississippi River Valley -- Commerce
• Moldavia -- Commerce
• Nablus Region -- Commerce
• Netherlands -- Commerce
• Nova Scotia -- Commerce
• Oceania -- Commerce
• Pacific Area -- Commerce
• Papua New Guinea -- Commerce
• Poland -- Commerce
• Portugal -- Commerce
• Rīga (Latvia) -- Commerce
• Rochester (N.Y.) -- Commerce
• Russia -- Commerce
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- Commerce
• South America -- Commerce
• Southeast Asia -- Commerce
• Soviet Union -- Commerce
• Turkey -- Commerce
• United States -- Commerce
• Wallachia -- Commerce
• West Indies -- Commerce
• West Indies, British -- Commerce

• Trade
• Traffic (Commerce)

• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (scholar's edition; Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, c1998), by Ludwig Von Mises (PDF and Epub with commentary at mises.org)
• Human Action: A Treatise on Economics (4th edition, 1996), by Ludwig Von Mises (HTML at econlib.org)
• Inflation, Trade, and Taxes: Essays in Honor of Alice Bourneuf (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1976), ed. by David A. Belsley, Edward J. Kane, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow (PDF at Ohio State)
• General-Equilibrium Theory in International Trade (Cowles Foundation monograph #7; Bloomington, IN: Principia Press, 1944), by Jacob L. Mosak (PDF at Yale)
• Essai Sur La Nature du Commerce en General (in English), by Richard Cantillon
  • text files at McMaster
  • HTML at econlib.org
• Studies in the Theory of International Trade (originally published 1937), by Jacob Viner (HTML at econlib.org)
• Brief Observations Concerning Trade, and Interest of Money, by Josiah Child (text at McMaster)
• A Discourse on Public Economy and Commerce, by Cesare Beccaria (text at McMaster)
• Discourses Upon Trade, by Dudley North (text at McMaster)
• Voyages and Commercial Enterprises of the Sons of New England (New York: Leavitt and Allen, 1855), by Richard J. Cleveland (page images at Mystic Seaport)
• Money, Method, and the Market Process, by Ludwig Von Mises, ed. by Margit Von Mises, contrib. by Richard M. Ebeling (multiple formats with commentary at mises.org)

• Official Guide for Shippers and Travellers to the Principal Ports of the World (1919-1920), by Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, ed. by M. Franklin Kline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Official Guide for Shippers and Travellers to the Orient (1917-1918), by Osaka Shosen Kabushiki Kaisha, ed. by M. Franklin Kline (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Compleat Guide to All Men in Business (Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1754), by Wyndham Beawes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Lex Mercatoria Rediviva, or, The Merchant's Directory: Being a Complete Guide to All Men in Business (6th edition; Dublin: Printed for J. Williams, 1773), by Wyndham Beawes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Marchants Avizo: Verie Necessarie for Their Sonnes and Servants, When They First Send Them Beyond The Seas, as to Spayne and Portingale, or Other Countreyes (London: Impr. by T. Orwin, 1590), by J. B. (page images at Yale)
• A Discourse of Trade, by Nicholas Barbon (text at McMaster)
• The System or Theory of the Trade of the World, by Isaac Gervaise (text at McMaster)

• A History of Business (2 volumes; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1963), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the Business Man (New York: Macmillan, 1938), by Miriam Beard (page images at HathiTrust)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1), by Edward Potts Cheyney (Gutenberg text)
• European Background of American History, 1300-1600 (The American Nation, a History, v1; New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1904), by Edward Potts Cheyney
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean, by a Merchant of the First Century (New York et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1912), ed. by Wilfred H. Schoff (page images at HathiTrust)

• Overseas Business Reports (partial serial archives)
• World Trade Information Service (partial serial archives)
• The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review (1839-1870) (full serial archives)
• The Economist (partial serial archives)
• System (partial serial archives)

• Balancing Power without Weapons: State Intervention into Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018), by Ashley Thomas Lenihan (PDF and HTML at Cambridge University Press)

• Accounting Theory: Continuity and Change (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1962), by A. C. Littleton and V. K. Zimmerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Structure of Accounting Theory (Urbana, IL: American Accounting Association, 1953), by A. C. Littleton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Management Through Accounts (New York: Ronald Press Co., c1924), by James H. Bliss (page images at HathiTrust)
• Budgetary Control (second printing; New York: Ronald Press, 1923), by James Oscar McKinsey (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Poem as Green Girdle: Commercium in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, by R. A. Shoaf (frame-dependent HTML at ufl.edu)

• Business and Law, or, The Careful Man's Guide: A Complete Legal and Business Compendium, Including Facts, Figures, Tables, Weights, Measures, Statistics, Short Cuts in Figures, etc.; To Which is Added, Practical Home Building and The Busy Man's Atlas (Boston et al.: Hertel, Jenkins and Co., 1907), by E. T. Roe and Elihu G. Loomis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Consulate of the Sea, and Related Documents, ed. by Stanley S. Jados (PDF files at Libro)

• Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, c2020), ed. by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa (PDF files with commentary at MIT Press Direct)

• Free Markets Under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare (Hoover Classics edition, 2008), by Richard Allen Epstein (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• Free Markets Under Siege: Cartels, Politics, and Social Welfare (2005), by Richard Allen Epstein (PDF files with commentary at Hoover Institution)
• Effort, Opportunity, and Wealth, by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)

• Electronic Commerce: The Strategic Perspective (electronic edition, c2008), by Richard Thomas Watson, Pierre Berthon, Leyland F. Pitt, and George M. Zinkhan (PDF at Global Text Project)
• Digital Economies at Global Margins (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press; Ottawa et al.: International Development Research Centre, c2019), ed. by Mark Graham (PDF at idrc.ca)
• Bringing Nothing to the Party: True Confessions of a New Media Whore (Creative Commons licensed online edition, c2008), by Paul Carr (HTML at Wayback Machine)
• Web Data Management (prepublication version, c2011), by S. Abiteboul, Ioana Manolescu, Philippe Rigaux, Marie-Christine Rousset, and Pierre Senellart (HTML and PDF with commentary at INRIA)
• From Bitcoin to Burning Man and Beyond: The Quest for Identity and Autonomy in a Digital Society (Amherst, MA: ID3 in cooperation with Off the Common Books, 2014), ed. by John H. Clippinger and David Bollier (multiple formats at archive.org)

• For-Giving: A Feminist Criticism of Exchange, by Genevieve Vaughan (illustrated HTML at for-giving.com)
• Money and the Mechanism of Exchange (New York: D. Appleton, 1876), by William Stanley Jevons (HTML at econlib.org)
• Equitable Society and How to Create It (New York: Vanguard Press, The Equitist League, 1927), by W. E. Brokaw (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Romance of the Law Merchant: Being an Introduction to the Study of International and Commercial Law, With Some Account of the Commerce and Fairs of the Middle Ages (London: Sweet and Maxwell Ltd., 1923), by Wyndham Anstis Bewes, contrib. by Richard Atkin (page images at HathiTrust)

• Trade and Employment: Challenges for Policy Research (2007), by Marion Jansen and Eddy Lee (PDF at ilo.org)

• Ancient Aboriginal Trade in North America (Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1873), by Charles Rau (multiple formats at archive.org)

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