Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The invention of a tradition of free trade: an introduction -- A historical reading of the history of economics -- The use and diffusion of economic language -- The heritage from Smith and classical political economy -- Adam Smith as a system builder -- The historical Smith -- The real classical economists -- The invention of a tradition: from the Corn Laws to the fair trade controversy -- The Christian moralist - and others -- Manchester uses of Adam Smith -- Popular economics -- The fair trade debate -- The historical construction of mercantilism -- Mercantilism -- Adam Smith's mercantile system today -- The historical construction of a concept -- Manchester and the mercantile system -- The role of mercantilism in nineteenth-century economic thought -- The American system -- The other face of American political economy -- Henry C. Carey -- John Rae -- The American system -- Free-traders in the Antebellum South -- After the Civil War -- The three systems of political economy: a Swedish case of translation -- Early economics in Sweden -- Physiocracy in Sweden -- Smith, Sweden and the industrial system.