... supplementary remarks on the relationsbetween financiers, considering, one by one, three types of businessdeals: those between professional bankers; those between financiers in other categories; and, finally, ... thebigger businessmen and elite financiers belonged. The existence of theseprofessional bankers of relatively modest means and operating within alimited locality certainly helped to expand the sphere ... entrepreneur or of the spirit offree enterprise, in the modern sense of those expressions. Thanks to thepeculium, responsibility was, it is true, limited, but the businesses in ques-tion were...