Title: Translating empire
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.
Subjects: Intellectual life, Enlightenment, European Philosophy, Economics, History, Philosophy, european, Europe, intellectual life, Economics, history
Places: Europe
Time periods: 18th century