Self-Organizing Networks 26.06.2012

The purposes of the panel are exploring the evolution of self-organizing networks of merchants, producers, communities, andgovernment officials in the emergence of the first global age (1400-1800 C.E.). Commercial networks involved a high level of cooperationand served to move goods and people within a highly open systemover an expanding geographic space. The panel will provide a forumto discuss how these commercial networks evolved in a self-organizing manner to maximize efficiency and profits. On the otherhand, we attend to explore new fields of research, so new tools of analysis in order to improve potentially result in History of Financeand Commerce.