1st Edition
Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment Theories, Practices, and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century
Introduction: On global commerce: topoi, utopias, and the existential production of knowledge
Part I
"The granary of the universe"
Travelogues, observations, evidence, and a global history of property
Chapter 1.
Pierre Poivre: A microglobal life
Chapter 2.
Eighteenth-century travel accounts: Platforms for economic observations.
Chapter 3.
Feudal Laws: Liberties for a few.
Chapter 4.
An empirical turn: Evidence and the attack on the economists.
Chapter 5.
Property rights: A global history.
Part II
"A universal warehouse of workforce"
Re-industrialisation, delocalisation, de-urbanisation, and the propagation of economic maxims
Chapter 6.
Ange Goudar: Does the republic of economists need transgressive authors?
Chapter 7.
The will to know: The praxis of economic maxims
Chapter 8.
The will to write: North and South Europe in transnational perspective
Chapter 9.
Industry’s geometry and geography
Chapter 10.
Materialising ideas: A chamber of Agriculture
Part III
"A universal intercourse of traffic as is desired"
Free ports, fairs, and institutional evolution in a global perspective
Chapter 11.
Free ports: the idol of all economists.
Chapter 12.
Lasting and unlasting markets: From Medieval fairs to free ports.
Chapter 13.
Institutional diversity: Free ports, the Navigation Act, and the Drawback system.
Chapter 14.
A Mediterranean silk road: Venice, Genoa, and Piedmont.
Chapter 15.
Tyre and Carthage: Failed projects and new glocal fairs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Biography
J. Bohorquez is a researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.
