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Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy: Economic reasons of state, 1500–2000 book cover

1st Edition

Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy Economic reasons of state, 1500–2000

Edited By Philipp R. Rössner Copyright 2016
330 Pages
by Routledge

330 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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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... Read more

Part I. Manufacturing Matters – The History of an Old Idea









  1. Philipp Robinson Rössner, New Inroads into Well-Known Territory? On the Virtues of re-discovering Pre-Classical Political Economy








  1. 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






    2. Part II. Economic Ideas and Idiosyncrasy – The Example of Cameralism







  2. Lars Magnusson, Was Cameralism really the German Version of Mercantilism?






  3. Jürgen Backhaus, Mercantilism and Cameralism. Two Very Different Variations on the Same Theme






  4. Bertram Schefold, Goethe’s Economics – Between Cameralism and Liberalism






    5. Part III. Vested Interests, Contingency and The Shaping of the Free Trade Doctrine







  5. Moritz Isenmann, From Privilege to Economic Law. Vested Interests and the Origins of Free Trade Theory in France (1687–1701)






  6. William J. Ashworth – The Demise of Regulation and Rise of Political Economy: Taxation, Industry and Fiscal Pressure in Britain 1763-1815






    7. Part IV. Knowledge, Risk and the Idea of Infinite Growth







  7. Marcus Sandl, Development as Possibility. Risk and Chance in the Cameralist Discourse






  8. Carl Wennerlind, The Political Economy of Sweden’s Age of Greatness: Johan Risingh and the Hartlib Circle






    9. Part V. Economic Growth and the State – From India to Italy







  9. Prasannan Parthasarathi – State Formation and Economic Growth in South Asia, 1600-1800






  10. Peer Vries, Economic Reasons of State in Qing China: A Brief Comparative Overview






  11. Ann Coenen, Infant Industry Protectionism and Early Modern Growth? Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneurial Petitions in the Austrian Netherlands






  12. Sophus Reinert, Achtung! Banditi! An Alternative Genealogy of the Market






    13. Part VI. Economic Reason of State and its Survival in Modern Economic Discourse







  13. Francesco Boldizzoni, The Long Shadow of Cameralism: The Atlantic Order and its Discontents


Biography

Philipp Robinson Rössner is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK

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