Translating empire: emulation and the origins of political economy
Auteur :
Reinert, Sophus A.
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674061514
Date de publication :
17 oct. 2011
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.