Daniel Vickers discusses, "What Makes a Commodity? An Eighteenth-century American Farmer Decides". Vickers is Professor of History at the University of British Columbia. This talk was included in the conference session topic titled, “Microeconomics of Credit”.

Steve Hindle welcomes participants and attendees to the "Markets, Law, & Ethics (1300-1832)" conference, held at the Huntington Library on November 14-15, 2014. Hindle is the W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research at The Huntington. Opening remarks are made by Simon Middleton and James E. Shaw. Both Middleton and Shaw are History professors at The University of Sheffield.