Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy addresses the intellectual foundations of modern economic growth and European industrialization. Through an examination both of the roots of European industrialization and of the history of economic ideas, this book presents a uniquely broad examination of the origins of modern political economy.
This volume asks what can we learn from ‘old’ theories in terms of our understanding of history, our economic fate today, and the prospects for the modern world’s poorest countries. Spanning across the past five hundred years, this book brings together leading international contributors offering comparative perspectives with countries outside of Europe in order to place the evolution of modern economic knowledge into a broader reference framework. It integrates economic discourse and the intellectual history of political economy with more empirical studies in economic history and the history of science. In doing so, this innovative volume presents a coherent and innovative new strategy towards a reconfiguration of the history of modern political economy.
This book is suitable for those who study history of economic thought, economic history or European history.
Edited by:
Philipp R. Rössner
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 600g
ISBN: 9781138930407
ISBN 10: 1138930407
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 10 May 2016
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
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A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Part I. Manufacturing Matters – The History of an Old Idea Philipp Robinson Rössner, New Inroads into Well-Known Territory? On the Virtues of re-discovering Pre-Classical Political Economy Erik S. Reinert (with Ken Carpenter), German Language Economic Bestsellers before 1850. Also Introducing Giovanni Botero as a Common Reference Point of Cameralism and Mercantilism Part II. Economic Ideas and Idiosyncrasy – The Example of Cameralism Lars Magnusson, Was Cameralism really the German Version of Mercantilism? Jürgen Backhaus, Mercantilism and Cameralism. Two Very Different Variations on the Same Theme Bertram Schefold, Goethe’s Economics – Between Cameralism and Liberalism Part III. Vested Interests, Contingency and The Shaping of the Free Trade Doctrine Moritz Isenmann, From Privilege to Economic Law. Vested Interests and the Origins of Free Trade Theory in France (1687–1701) William J. Ashworth – The Demise of Regulation and Rise of Political Economy: Taxation, Industry and Fiscal Pressure in Britain 1763-1815 Part IV. Knowledge, Risk and the Idea of Infinite Growth Marcus Sandl, Development as Possibility. Risk and Chance in the Cameralist Discourse Carl Wennerlind, The Political Economy of Sweden’s Age of Greatness: Johan Risingh and the Hartlib Circle Part V. Economic Growth and the State – From India to Italy Prasannan Parthasarathi – State Formation and Economic Growth in South Asia, 1600-1800 Peer Vries, Economic Reasons of State in Qing China: A Brief Comparative Overview Ann Coenen, Infant Industry Protectionism and Early Modern Growth? Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneurial Petitions in the Austrian Netherlands Sophus Reinert, Achtung! Banditi! An Alternative Genealogy of the Market Part VI. Economic Reason of State and its Survival in Modern Economic Discourse Francesco Boldizzoni, The Long Shadow of Cameralism: The Atlantic Order and its Discontents
Philipp Robinson Rössner is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK
