We draw on quantitative and descriptive data from Robert Campbell’s widely cited manual for prospective apprentices, The London Tradesman (1747), to demonstrate the responsiveness of apprenticeship in mid-eighteenth century London to market forces of supply and demand. We regress...

The accounting French writers have an honourable place in the European accounting literature, but not pre-eminent. Their most glorious periods are the 18th and the 19th centuries, but at that time, they are more numerous than during the previous time and are more recognised. With Paris, the...