Foundations of Political Economy : Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society / Neal Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Neal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Great Britain--History--To 1800.

Economics.

Political science--Great Britain--History--16th century.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 319 p. )

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1994]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Conventional wisdom claims that the seventeenth century gave birth to the material and ideological forces that culminated in the Industrial Revolution and the rise of capitalism. Not true, according to Neal Wood, who argues that much earlier reformers--Dudley, Starkey, Brinklow, Latimer, Crowley, Becon, Lever, and Thomas Smith, as well as the better-known More and Fortescue--laid the groundwork by fashioning an economic conception of the state in response to social, economic and political conditions of England. Wood's innovative study of these early Tudor thinkers, who upheld the status quo yet condemned widespread poverty and suffering, will interest historians, political scientists, and social and political theorists.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. INTRODUCTION: THE REFORMERS

2. EARLY SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND

3. TOWARD AN ECONOMIC CONCEPTION OF THE STATE

4. FORERUNNER OF THE REFORMERS: SIR JOHN FORTESCUE

5. FIRST OF THE REFORMERS: SIR EDMUND DUDLEY

6. THE ENLIGHTENED CONSERVATIVE: SIR THOMAS MORE

7. LIFE OF DIGNITY IN THE "TRUE COMMYN WELE": THOMAS STARKEY

8. SOCIAL PROTEST AND CHRISTIAN RENEWAL: THE COMMONWEALTHMEN

9. SIR THOMAS SMITH'S NEW "MORAL PHILOSOPHY"

10. Conclusion

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520913448

0520913442

9780585098609

0585098603

OCLC:

1163878239