For a very long time, the areas available for continuous long-distance trade were limited to territories the size of Braudel's Mediterranée (1949). Whatever the commercial organizations (merchants in the Roman or the Fatimid Empires, the Hanseatic League, the Florentine Companies), their trade...

Internationality is in the Federal Republic of Germany no mere slogan. A country whose industry and commerce is so closely interlinked with the economies of other countries needs international cooperation, and that not only within the restricted circle of its EEC partners, but also in the wider...

Importe haben für manche Gruppen einer Volkswirtschaft eine unangenehme Konsequenz: Importe reduzieren die Gewinne; sie zerstören Arbeitsplätze in den Sektoren, die Importsubstitute herstellen; sie bedrohen die Position von Wirtschaftszweigen und vernichten gar die Existenz. Möglicherweise...

One of the institutions involved in coffee value chain in Indonesia is the cooperative. We compare the experience of two cooperatives in exporting coffee beans. The Margamulya Coffee Producer Cooperative currently exports coffee beans directly and through an exporter, while the Mitra Malabar...