Introduction (Martin Lutz and Tanja Skambraks) -- Part 1: Antiquity and Middle Ages -- Chapter 1.The Popular Morality of Ancient Greek Commerce (Moritz Hinsch) -- Chapter 2. Early medieval property transfers in favour of the church between religion and economy (Franziska Quaas) -- Chapter 3....

Commodities do not only serve the purpose of satisfying direct needs in the production and con-sumption process. Some of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper addresses the question under which circum-stances...

This paper deals with the influence of cultural attitudes towards uncertainty on the level of businessownership across countries. First, the concepts of uncertainty and risk are elaborated, as well as theirrelevance for entrepreneurship. Second, cross-sectional regression analysis using data for...