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Business and society|The Hand Signals That Drove Business in Renaissance Europe
Business and society

The Hand Signals That Drove Business in Renaissance Europe

From the Magazine (July–August 2015)
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The marketplaces of Renaissance Europe were polyglot bazaars, attracting traders from across the Continent and beyond, who spoke different languages and carried different currencies. How did businessmen communicate? And how did they stay abreast of exchange rates?

A version of this article appeared in the July–August 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review.
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