Translating empire
Subtitle: emulation and the origins of political economy
By: Sophus A. Reinert
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
ISBN-13: 9780674061514
Subjects: Intellectual life; Enlightenment; European Philosophy; Economics; History
Description: Historians have traditionally turned to free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. Reinert argues that economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and merchants thought about imperialism, economics, industry, and reform in the early modern period.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Emulation and translation; title: Cary's Essay on the state of England; title: Butel-Dumont's Essai sur l'etat du commerce d'Angleterre; title: Genovesi's Storia del commercio della Gran Brettagna; title: Wichmann's Ekonomisch-politischer commentarius; title: Epilogue.