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Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
Sophus A. Reinert
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Description for Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
Hardback. Historians have traditionally turned to free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. Reinert argues that economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and merchants thought about imperialism, economics, industry, and reform in the early modern period. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 maps, 20 graphs. BIC Classification: 3J; HBLL; JPA; KCP; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 244 x 34. Weight in Grams: 868.
Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert's perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive consequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and reform, in the early modern period. With the rise of the British Empire, European powers and ... Read more
Historians have traditionally used the discourses of free trade and laissez faire to explain the development of political economy during the Enlightenment. But from Sophus Reinert's perspective, eighteenth-century political economy can be understood only in the context of the often brutal imperial rivalries then unfolding in Europe and its former colonies and the positive consequences of active economic policy. The idea of economic emulation was the prism through which philosophers, ministers, reformers, and even merchants thought about economics, as well as industrial policy and reform, in the early modern period. With the rise of the British Empire, European powers and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
868g
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674061514
SKU
V9780674061514
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About Sophus A. Reinert
Sophus A. Reinert is Marvin Bower Associate Professor at Harvard Business School.
Reviews for Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy
It is rare to read a work of such originality and creativity, as well as breadth of ambition: With Reinert's evidence in hand, the entire history of economic thought and the origins of imperial industrialism will have to be reconsidered.
Jacob Soll, Rutgers University Translating Empire convincingly argues that the development of eighteenth-century political economy must be understood in the context ... Read more
Jacob Soll, Rutgers University Translating Empire convincingly argues that the development of eighteenth-century political economy must be understood in the context ... Read more