Undergraduate Econometrics or Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain

Undergraduate Econometrics

Author: R Carter Hill

This book explores econometrics using an intuitive approach that begins with an economic model. It emphasizes motivation, understanding, and implementation and shows readers how economic data are used with economic and statistical models as a basis for estimating key economic parameters, testing economic hypotheses and predicting economic outcomes.

Book about: 12 Stages of Healing or Warning

Trade and Traders in Muslim Spain: The Commercial Realignment of the Iberian Peninsula, 900-1500

Author: Olivia Remie Constabl

This volume surveys Iberian international trade from the tenth to the fifteenth century, with particular emphasis on commerce in the Muslim period and on changes brought by Christian conquest of much of Muslim Spain in the thirteenth century. From the tenth to the thirteenth century, markets in the Iberian peninsula were closely linked to markets elsewhere in the Islamic world, and a strong east-west Mediterranean trading network linked Cairo with Cordoba. Following routes along the North African coast, Muslim and Jewish merchants carried eastern goods to Muslim Spain, returning eastwards with Andalusi exports. Situated at the edge of the Islamic west, Andalusi markets were also emporia for the transfer of commodities between the Islamic world and Christian Europe. After the thirteenth century the Iberian peninsula became part of the European economic sphere, its commercial realignment aided by the opening of the Straits of Gibraltar to Christian trade, and by the contemporary demise of the Muslim trading network in the Mediterranean.

Speculum

With this fine book, based on an impressive array of Arabic and European vernacular and Latin sources, Remie Constable has effectively filled a significant lacuna in Mediterranean commercial history....In the field of Andalusi commercial history, this work is likely to be unsurpassed for many years to come. -- Speculum

Table of Contents:

Preface;

1. The market at the edge of the west;
2. Al-Andalus within the European network: geography, routes, and communications before the thirteenth century;
3. The merchant profession in Muslim Spain and the medieval Mediterranean;
4. The merchants in Andalusi trade;
5. Merchant business and Andalusi government authority;
6. Commodities and patterns of trade in the medieval Mediterranean world;
7. Andalusi exports before 1212;
8. Continuities and changes in Iberian exports after 1212;
9. Spain, northern Europe, and the Mediterranean in the late middle ages; Bibliography.