One way of reading Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is as a railing against the way in which the remnants of the medieval economy restricted both economic freedom and economic growth. True, it's not the ...

One of the ways, a true and correct method too, of reading Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is as a complaint against the medieval economy of guilds. There's more to it than just that of course but he ...

In his native England, James Pearce says, the guilds are everywhere. Drawing on a practice that dates back to medieval times, a guild is a group of craftspeople or merchants who've banded together ...

The term comes from the Middle Ages, when artists had to present a “master piece” to their craftsman’s guild. Stonemasons at work, depicted in a relief under the tabernacle of the Guild of Stone and ...

Mark Chandler, the general counsel of Cisco, gave a speech last week at the Northwestern School of Law's 34th Annual Securities Regulation Institute. The confab brought together a bunch of big wigs in ...

Dec. 30, 2004 -- -- Are you ready to go medieval? Don't look now, but you already have. I recently stumbled across -- in Peter Ackroyd's book "London" -- a description of daily working life in that ...

LONDON (Reuters) – Street hawkers and independent shop owners in London’s East End have come up with a medieval solution to combat the age-old problem of rising rents. Fearful that the unique ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While many real-time strategy games rely on the familiar formula of resource gathering, base building, and army crushing, the Total War series has ...