1st Edition
The Economic Thought of William Petty Exploring the Colonialist Roots of Economics
Preface, 1. William Petty: Biographical and Historical Background, 2. Petty and the Colonialist Roots of Development Economics, 3. Petty’s Economic Thought and the Fiscal-Military State, 4. The Spatial Economy from Petty to Krugman, 5. William Petty and colonialism: a selective review of some current debates, Postscript: William Petty and the colonialist roots of economics
Biography
Hugh Goodacre is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Westminster, and a Teaching Fellow at University College London. He was formerly a Senior Curator for Asia, Africa, Pacific Collections at the British Library, where he worked from 1972 to 1996, specialising in Arabic. His research project is to explore the influence of colonialist ideology on the economics discipline.
"Hugh Goodacre’s excellent book...In its scrupulous engagement with several literatures and its powerful interpretation of Petty’s economic work, it points toward a more integrated view of Petty and of the place of economic ideas in the welter of seventeenth-century developments in which he had a role."
Ted McCormick, History of Political Economy
