ABSTRACT
Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy addresses the intellectual foundations of modern economic growth and European industrialization. Through an examination both of the roots of European industrialization and of the history of economic ideas, this book presents a uniquely broad examination of the origins of modern political economy.
This volume asks what can we learn from ‘old’ theories in terms of our understanding of history, our economic fate today, and the prospects for the modern world’s poorest countries. Spanning across the past five hundred years, this book brings together leading international contributors offering comparative perspectives with countries outside of Europe in order to place the evolution of modern economic knowledge into a broader reference framework. It integrates economic discourse and the intellectual history of political economy with more empirical studies in economic history and the history of science. In doing so, this innovative volume presents a coherent and innovative new strategy towards a reconfiguration of the history of modern political economy.
This book is suitable for those who study history of economic thought, economic history or European history.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|53 pages
Manufacturing matters
chapter 1|23 pages
New inroads into well-known territory?
chapter 2|28 pages
German language economic bestsellers before 1850
part II|17 pages
Economic ideas and idiosyncrasy
part III|36 pages
Vested interests, contingency and the shaping of the free trade doctrine
chapter 6|19 pages
From privilege to economic law
chapter 7|15 pages
The demise of regulation and rise of political economy
part IV|49 pages
Knowledge, risk and the idea of infinite growth
part V|109 pages
Economic growth and the state
chapter 12|19 pages
Infant industry protectionism and early modern growth?
part VI|13 pages
Economic reason of state and its survival in modern economic discourse