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Harmony and the balance : an intellectual history of seventeenth-century English economic thought /

Frequently the achievements of pioneering economic writers are assessed by imposing contemporary theories of markets, econ-omics, politics, and history. At last, here is a book that appraises the work of the leading English economic writers of the seventeenth century using intellectual concepts of t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Finkelstein, Andrea, 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ann Arbor : The University of Michigan Press, [2000]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Merchants and the body politic
  • Gerard de Malynes: Institutio Mercatoris Christiani
  • Edward Misselden and the "natural freedom" of trade
  • Thomas Mun and the finite zeitgeist
  • Harmony and the "balance of trade"
  • Mechanically minded
  • The number, weight, and measure of Sir William Petty
  • Sir Josiah Child: what price money?
  • John Locke: nineteen shillings do not a pound make
  • Accounting for economics
  • In the balance
  • Sir Dudley North: merchants and markets
  • Nicholas Barbon and the quality of infinity.