pt. I. Manufacturing matters : the history of an old idea -- 1. New inroads into well-known territory : on the virtues of re-discovering pre-classical political economy / Philipp Robinson Rossner -- 2. German language economic bestsellers before 1850 : also introducing Giovanni Botero as a common reference point of cameralism and mercantilism / Erik S. Reinert (with Ken Carpenter) -- pt. 2. Economic ideas and idiosyncrasy : the example of cameralism -- 3. Was cameralism really the German version of mercantilism? / Lars Magnusson -- 4. Mercantilism and cameralism : two very different variations on the same theme / Jurgen Backhaus -- 5. Goethe's economics : between cameralism and liberalism / Bertram Schefold -- pt. III. Vested interests, contingency and the shaping of the free trade doctrine -- 6. From privilege to economic law : vested interests and the origins of free trade theory in France (1687-1701) / Moritz Isenmann -- 7. The demise of regulation and rise of political economy : taxation, industry and fiscal pressure in Britain 1763-1815 / William J. Ashworth -- pt. IV. Knowledge, risk and the idea of infinite growth -- 8. Development as possibility : risk and chance in the cameralist discourse / Marcus Sandl -- 9. The political economy of Sweden's age of greatness : Johan risingh and the Hartlib circle / Carl Wennerlind -- pt. V. Economic growth and the state : from India to Italy -- 10. State formation and economic growth in South Asia, 1600-1800 / Prasannan Parthasarathi -- 11. Economic reasons of state in Qing China : a brief comparative overview / Peer Vries -- 12. Infant industry protectionism and early modern growth? : evidence from eighteenth-century entrepreneurial petitions in the Austrian Netherlands / Ann Coenen -- 13. Achtung! Banditi! An alternative genealogy of the market / Sophus Reinert -- pt. VI. Economic reason of state and its survival in modern economic discourse -- 14. The long shadow of cameralism : the Atlantic order and its discontents / Francesco Boldizzoni.
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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 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.
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