Editing Merchant (section)

==Sources and further reading==
* Adams Julia. ''The Familial State. Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe'' (Cornell University Press, 2005)
*  Braudel, F. ''The Wheels of Commerce: Civilization and Capitalism, 15th to 18th Century'' (U of California Press, 1992)
* Burset, Christian R. "Merchant courts, arbitration, and the politics of commercial litigation in the eighteenth-century British Empire." ''Law and History Review'' 34.3 (2016): 615–647. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200218192800/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9d0a/fe1fa5e0d61a7bf5ff9784eccbfc6587e87c.pdf online]
* Casson, Mark. ''The entrepreneur: An economic theory'' (Rowman & Littlefield, 1982). Influential scholarly survey
* Enciso, Agustín González. "The merchant and the common good: social paradigms and the state’s influence in Western history." in ''The Challenges of Capitalism for Virtue Ethics and the Common Good'' (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016).
* Julien, Pierre-André, ed. ''The state of the art in small business and entrepreneurship'' (Routledge, 2018).
* Lindemann, Mary. ''The Merchant Republics—Amsterdam, Antwerp, and Hamburg, 1648–1790'' (Cambridge UP, 2015)
* Marsden, Magnus, and Vera Skvirskaja. "Merchant identities, trading nodes, and globalization: Introduction to the Special Issue." ''History and Anthropology'' 29.sup1 (2018): S1-S13. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/02757206.2018.1497622 online]
* Smith, Adam, "[[The Wealth of Nations|An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations]]" (Bantam Classics, Annotated Edition, 4 March 2003) {{ISBN|978-0553585971}}
* Origo, Iris. ''The Merchant of Prato: Daily Life in a Medieval Italian City'' (Penguin UK, 2017).
* Outhwaite, R. B. "Merchants and Gentry in North-East England, 1650–1830: The Carrs and the Ellisons." ''English Historical Review'' 115.462 (2000): 729–729.
* Persaud, Alexander. "Indian Merchant Migration within the British Empire." ''Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History.'' (2020)
* Smith, Edmond.  ''Merchants: The Community That Shaped England's Trade and Empire, 1550-1650'' (Yale University Press, 2021) [http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=58089 online review]
*{{cite book|last=Thrupp|first=Sylvia L.|author-link=Sylvia L. Thrupp|title=The Merchant Class of Medieval London, 1300–1500|year=1989|publisher=[[University of Michigan Press]]|isbn=978-0-472-06072-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AhJ5JE57ga4C&q=merchant+class}}
* Williams, E. N. "Our Merchants Are Princes": The English Middle Classes In The Eighteenth Century" ''History Today'' (Aug 196) 2, Vol. 12 Issue 8, pp548–557.