The Culture of Credit in Eighteenth-Century Commerce: The English Textile Industry
本文通过将文化因素纳入经济分析，研究了18世纪英国羊毛纺织业不同地区的信用制度，发现信用文化差异影响了企业家精神和产业发展。
In this article, I seek to expand the relatively narrow focus of most work on commercial credit in eighteenth-century England by incorporating culture into an economic analysis. I argue that the various credit regimes that operated in the regional branches of the English wool textile industry are best understood as having a cultural dimension. A comparative analysis of business strategies in these regions suggests that the different cultures of credit had important implications for the development of the textile industry during the eighteenth century, shaping the character of the entrepreneurship of each region's merchants and producers.