Trade | Teaconomics

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

This post owns much to the work done by Dr Pim de Zwart from the Wageningen University and Research that published in 2016 a paper in The Journal of Economic History on globalization in the early modern era: new evidence from the Dutch-Asiatic trade between …

Understanding economics

Sometimes I tend to ask myself some strange questions (strange for most people, not for me). One of them goes around the question of price (see there and there). I am most intrigued by how prices are made. Sure every price depends on how much …

I want it all

After a small hiatus, I am back and I must confess something: I am a consumer and a modern one, which means I want everything, that I want it all and I want it now. No don’t bother to send me over to any video …

Every luxury must be paid for

I have what I would call a professional bias: when I read about prices from old times, I think about how much it would be today. You might not know it but for different reasons, prices are changing over time meaning that you can buy …

Winter is coming

Winter is coming and no, this has nothing to do with Game of Thrones or with the season. Yes, in both cases, winter is truly coming but in tea, you could say that. But first we need to take a step back in time and …

While follow eyes the steady keel

Those who follow me may have noticed that I have a soft spot for tea (obvious) and for history and when both are mixed, it is pure bliss. And this is what happened to me during my holidays. I had seen that there was a …

Florilegium on Japanese tea

Tea and Japan… A lot has been written about it and a lot could still be written on this subject but I decided to focus on a really small topic, the early Japanese tea exports. As it happens quite often, this is merely an introduction …

We grow old because we stop playing

Yunnan… Yunnan? Yes I know, you know everything about this region and its teas. But let me surprise you. I am not going to talk to you about this but rather about a game named Yunnan, a game about tea, trade and merchant houses (yes …

All it took was one ship

All it took for me to think about this topic was one ship. If only this was true, it would make a good story but the truth is that I came across the topic of this Swedish East India Company (or SOC in Swedish) through …

I was in holidays and during that time, I saw something I already knew but sometimes you rediscover things you already knew: in hotels, camping places, bars, coffeehouses… you don’t have loose leaf teas but only the “not so good” old tea bags (from several …

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