TRANSLATING EMPIRE by Sophus A. Reinert ( 9780674063235 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

TRANSLATING EMPIRE
EMULATION AND THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY

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Electronic book text

List price:	£52.00
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ISBN 10:

0674063236

ISBN 13:

9780674063235

Publisher:

HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

17 October, 2011

Pages:

456

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.

Synopsis:

Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert's perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive consequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and reform, in the early modern period. With the rise of the British Empire, European powers and others sought to selectively emulate the British model.In mapping the general history of economic translations between 1500 and 1849, and particularly tracing the successive translations of the Bristol merchant John Cary's seminal 1695 Essay on the State of England, Reinert makes a compelling case for the way that England's aggressively nationalist policies, especially extensive tariffs and other intrusive market interventions, were adopted in France, Italy, Germany, and Scandinavia before providing the blueprint for independence in the New World. Relatively forgotten today, Cary's work served as the basis for an international move toward using political economy as the prime tool of policymaking and industrial expansion. Reinert's work challenges previous narratives about the origins of political economy and invites the current generation of economists to reexamine the foundations, and future, of their discipline.

US Grade:

College Graduate Student

Illustrations:

2 maps, 20 graphs

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Imprint:

Harvard University Press

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Non-returnable

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