Economic growth and the origins of modern political economy : economic reasons of state, 1500 - 2000

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rossner, Philipp Robinson (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group c2016
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. New inroads into well-known territory: on the virtues of re-discovering pre-classical political economy
  • 2. German language economic bestsellers before 1850: also introducing giovanni botero as a common reference point of cameralism and mercantilism
  • 3. Was cameralism really the German version of mercantilism?
  • 4. Mercantilism and cameralism: two very different variations on the same theme
  • 5. Goethe's economics: between cameralism and liberalism
  • 6. From privilege to economic law: vested interests and the origins of free trade theory in France (1687-1701)
  • 7. The demise of regulation and rise of political economy: taxation, industry and fiscal pressure in Britain 1763-1815
  • 8. Development as possibility: risk and chance in the cameralist discourse
  • 9. The political economy of Sweden's age of greatness: Johan risingh and the Hartlib circle
  • 10. State formation and economic growth in South Asia, 1600-1800
  • 11. Economic reasons of state in Qing China: a brief comparative overview
  • 12. Infant industry protectionism and early modern growth?: evidence from eighteenth-century entrepreneurial petitions in the Austrian Netherlands
  • 13. Achtung! Banditi! An alternative genealogy of the market
  • 14. The long shadow of cameralism: the Atlantic order and its discontents