Trade and nation : how companies and politics reshaped economic thought
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Trade and nation : how companies and politics reshaped economic thought
（The middle range / edited by Peter S. Bearman and Shamus R. Khan）
Columbia University Press, 2021
- : trade pbk.
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Includes index
Bibliography: p. [255]-278
Summary: "In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. This shift marked the origins of classical political economy and provided the foundation for the contemporary discipline of economics. The seventeenth-century revolution in economic thought fundamentally reshaped the way economic processes have been interpreted and understood. In Trade and Nation, Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation. Erikson pinpoints how the rise of the company form in confluence with the political marginalization of English merchants created an opening for public argumentation over economic matters. Independent merchants, who were excluded from state institutions and vast areas of trade, confronted the power and influence of crown-endorsed chartered companies. ..."