The Political Economy Of Mercantilism

Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317439805
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of Mercantilism written by Lars Magnusson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the days of Adam Smith, Mercantilism has been a hotly debated issue. Condemned at the end of the 18th century as a "false" system of economic thinking and political practice, it has returned paradoxically to the forefront in regard to issues such as the creation of economic growth in developing countries. This concept is often used in order to depict economic thinking and economic policy in early modern Europe; its meaning and content has been highly debated for over two hundred years. Following on from his 1994 volume Mercantilism – The Shaping of an Economic Language, this new book from Lars Magnusson presents a more synthetic interpretation of Mercantilism not only as a theoretical system, but also as a system of political economy. This book incorporates samples of material from the 1994 publication alongside new material, ordered in a new set of chapters and up-date discussions on mercantilism up to the present day. Tracing the development of a particular political economy of Mercantilism in a period of nascent state making in Western and Continental Europe from the 16th to the 18th century, the book describes how European rulers regarded foreign trade and industrialisation as a means to achieve power and influence amidst international competition over trades and markets. Returning to debates concerning whether Mercantilism was a system of power or of wealth, Magnusson argues that it is in fact was both, and that contemporaries almost without exception saw these goals as interconnected. He also emphasises that Mercantilism was an all-European issue in a time of trade wars and the struggle for international power and recognition. In examining these issues, this book offers an unrivalled modern synthesis of Mercantilist ideas and practices.

Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134907729
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercantilism written by Lars Magnusson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1994-07-07 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since the Physiocrats and Adam Smith, mercantilism or 'the mercantile system' have been described as the opposite of classical political economy. This view is very much brought into question by the current book. It argues that the sharp distinction between mercantilism and 19th century laissez-faire economics has obscured the meaning, content

Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401114080
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercantilist Economics written by Lars Magnusson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers reflects the variety of interpretations and definitions connected with the concept of `mercantilism' which have evolved historically during the last two centuries. They range from interpretations of `mercantilistic' ideas to interpretations of policies. They stress the relationship between economic, social and political ideas and range from the 17th to the late 20th century. Lastly, they provide us with more knowledge of specific national cases as well as a discussion of mercantilism as a general phenomenon.

Author : Philip J. Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199988536
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercantilism Reimagined written by Philip J. Stern and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of collected essays takes a new approach to this problematic subject by rethinking its broad foundations. From a variety of perspectives, its authors situate mercantilism against the backdrop of wider transformations in seventeenth-century Britain, Europe, and the Atlantic, from the scientific revolution to the expansion of empire.--

Author : Joan Robinson
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Mercantilism written by Joan Robinson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Donald Cuthbert Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revisions in Mercantilism written by Donald Cuthbert Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography: p. 210-213.

Author : Eric Helleiner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501760130
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Neomercantilists written by Eric Helleiner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when critiques of free trade policies are gaining currency, The Neomercantilists helps make sense of the protectionist turn, providing the first intellectual history of the genealogy of neomercantilism. Eric Helleiner identifies many pioneers of this ideology between the late eighteenth and early twentieth centuries who backed strategic protectionism and other forms of government economic activism to promote state wealth and power. They included not just the famous Friedrich List, but also numerous lesser-known thinkers, many of whom came from outside of the West. Helleiner's novel emphasis on neomercantilism's diverse origins challenges traditional Western-centric understandings of its history. It illuminates neglected local intellectual traditions and international flows of ideas that gave rise to distinctive varieties of the ideology around the globe, including in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. This rich history left enduring intellectual legacies, including in the two dominant powers of the contemporary world economy: China and the United States. The result is an exceptional study of a set of profoundly influential economic ideas. While rooted in the past, it sheds light on the present moment. The Neomercantilists shows how we might construct more global approaches to the study of international political economy and intellectual history, devoting attention to thinkers from across the world, and to the cross-border circulation of thought.

Author : Leonard Gomes
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349089923
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foreign Trade and the National Economy written by Leonard Gomes and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-06-18 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Eli F. Heckscher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113615731X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mercantilism written by Eli F. Heckscher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eli Heckscher's Mercantilism is a classic work in the history of economic thought, economic history and international economics. A pioneer in both economic history and trade theory, Heckscher brought a unique breadth to this study. Covering all of the major European countries, the book explores the content and significance of mercantilist ideas over nearly two centuries. Acknowledging the difficulties involved in defining mercantilism, Heckscher nonetheless succeeded in identifying a set of its key characteristics. Now available for the first time in many years, Mercantilism remains singularly relevant to a world preoccupied with maintaining its trading order. Hecksher's full text, notes and supporting material are supplemented by a new introduction by Lars Magnusson which discusses the origin, content and impact of the book.

Author : Alex Feldman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040009654
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Orthodox Mercantilism written by Alex Feldman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how the political economy of mercantilism was not simply a Western invention by various cities and kingdoms during the Renaissance, but was the natural by-product of perpetually limited growth rates and rulers’ relentless pursuits of bullion. It contributes to discussions of the economic history surrounding the so-called “Great Divergence” between East and West, which would consequently lend context and credence to differences of economic thought in the world today. Additionally, it seeks to explain present economic thought as tacitly derived from implicit antique paradigms. This book advances fields of research from numismatics and sigillography to historical materialism and historical political economy. Divided into three parts, Orthodox Mercantilism first examines the political theology (the sovereignty) of the œcumene from the early 11th century. Second, it analyzes its peripheral legislation from the customary laws of newly Christianized dynasties up to the Kormčaja Kniga’s adoption (the Nomokanon) by 13th-century Orthodox dynasties across Eastern Europe. Third, it explores how these dynasties (and their own satellite dynasties) hoarded finite bullion to pay for defense, resulting in the 11–14th-century coinless period across Eastern Europe and Western Eurasia. Appealing to students and scholars alike, this book will be of interest to those studying and researching economic and mercantile history, particularly in the context of Byzantine and Eastern European societies.