Grain Policies and Storage in Southern Germany: The Regensburg Hospital (17th-19th Centuries)

Pindl Kathrin ()
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Pindl Kathrin: Universität Regensburg, D-93040 Regensburg, Germany

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2018, vol. 59, issue 2, 415-445

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the storage policy of the citizens’ hospital of Regensburg in the Early Modern period (focus: 18th century). The main purpose consists of (1) a source-based micro-study that helps to derive insights into the mechanisms of how experiences and expectations have influenced decisions by a pre-modern institution, (2) an analytical scheme for describing and evaluating the process of decision-making based on narrative evidence, and (3) the suggestion of analytical categories. These should allow a differentiation between time-invariant human behaviour that determines economic decisions, and time-specific factors which can be used to separate possibly “pre-modern” patterns from seemingly modern-day capitalist economic performance.

Keywords: granary; grain storage; historical commodity markets; decisionmaking behaviour; agents; premodern; Getreidekasten; Getreidelagerung; Historische Rohstoffmärkte; Entscheidungsverhalten; Akteure; Vormoderne (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B D I N Z (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2018-0014

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