http://es.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/khp037?ijkey=uwJVwTsgu9xkeC4&keytype=ref Enterprise and Society Advance Access published online on August 26, 2009 Enterprise and Society, doi:10.1093/es/khp037 © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org. Economic Information on International Markets: French Strategies in the Italian Mirror (Nineteenth–Early Twentieth Centuries) Alessandro Stanziani ALESSANDRO STANZIANI is Full Professor at EHESS (L'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), 54, Bd Raspail 75006 Paris, and Directeur de Recherches, CNRS (Centre National des Recherches Scientifiques), IDHE. His main research fields are the history of rules and competition of France and Europe in the eighteenth to twentieth centuries; global history of labor and bondage in Eurasia during the sixteenth to twentieth centuries; history of Russian serfdom; and bonded labor in the Indian Ocean region during the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Contact information: alessandro.stanziani@idhe.ens- cachan.fr. Abstract During 1870–1914, business actors were concerned about the increasing uncertainty and occasional cheating in commercial relationships. In such situations, economic actors seek to improve the information they have, so as to benefit from strong comparative advantages over This Article Abstract Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to My Personal Archive Download to citation manager Request Permissions Google Scholar Articles by Stanziani, A. Social Bookmarking What's this? TOP Abstract International Market and Trade... The Wine Market: A... Commercial associations versus... Economic Information and... Conclusion: Information and... Bibliography of Works Cited