This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise … dependent on long-distance trade, and especially those who had operated as price-takers, to re-orient their export …, especially in acting as ‘price-makers’ engaged in monopolistic competition. That industrial-commercial transformation can be seen …

, which, by the 1390s, constituted half of the sales price; and that in turn accounted for up to 70 percent of production … and thus price advantage, but one not fully exploited until the fifteenth century. The catalyst for the final economic … expansion of the nouvelles draperies, took place from 1429 to 1473, when the English crown sought to exploit the wool trade even …

Wool staple, where the Flemish drapers secured almost all their wools. Those onerous regulations and the conflicts that … followed doomed both the English wool trade and the Flemish cloth industry to a sudden and irredeemable decline. …

In the literature on firm strategy and product differentiation, consumer price-quality trade-offs are sometimes … represented using consumer “value maps”. These involve the geometric representation of indifferent price and quality combinations … as points along curves that are concave to the “quality” axis. In this paper, it is shown that the value map for price …

This paper is the first published critique of the indeterminacy of price-value correlations and their inadequacy as … vector of empirically-observed average price of a set of industrial sectors, and a vector of aggregate values calculated as …