| Description |
1 online resource (237 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Ser |
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Routledge Studies in the History of Economics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- PART I: "The granary of the universe" Travelogues, observations, evidence, and a global history of property -- 1 Pierre Poivre: A microglobal life -- 2 Eighteenth-century travel accounts: Platforms for economic observations -- 3 Feudal laws: Liberties for a few -- 4 An empirical turn: Evidence and the attack on the economists -- 5 Property rights: A global history |
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PART II: "A universal warehouse of workforce" Reindustrialisation, delocalisation, deurbanisation, and the propagation of economic maxims -- 6 Ange Goudar: Does the republic of economists need transgressive authors? -- 7 The will to know: The praxis of economic maxims -- 8 The will to write: North and South Europe in transnational perspective -- 9 Industry's geometry and geography -- 10 Materialising ideas: A chamber of agriculture -- PART III: "A universal intercourse of traffic as is desired" Free ports, fairs, and institutional evolution in a global perspective |
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11 Free ports: The idol of all economists -- 12 Lasting and unlasting markets: From Medieval fairs to free ports -- 13 Institutional diversity: Free ports, the navigation act, and the drawback system -- 14 A Mediterranean silk road: Venice, Genoa, and Piedmont -- 15 Tyre and Carthage: Failed projects and new glocal fairs -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
Combining contextual, institutional and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Commerce -- History -- 18th century
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Commerce
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429650581 |
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0429650582 |
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