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

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Finkelstein, Andrea, 1949-
Contributor:
Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Economics--England--History--17th century.
Economics.
England--Economic conditions--17th century.
England.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (392 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Places the work of major economic writers of seventeenth-century England within the broader context of the intellectual revolutions of the period.
Contents:
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.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Description based on information from the publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 345-364) and index.
ISBN:
1-282-44513-8
9786612445132
0-472-02384-5
OCLC:
593240022

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