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Harmony and the balance : an intellectual history of seventeenth-century English economic thought / Andrea Finkelstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Finkelstein, Andrea, 1949-
- 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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