New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-09628-1 (ISBN)
The first decade of the twenty-first century, bookended by 9/11 and a global financial crisis, witnessed the clamorous and urgent return of both 'the political' and 'the economic' to historiographical debates. It is becoming more important than ever to rethink the historical role of politics (and, indeed, of government) in business, economic production, distribution, and exchange. The artefacts of pre-modern and modern political economy, from the fourteenth through the twentieth centuries, remain monuments of perennial importance for understanding how human beings grappled with and overcame material hardship, organized their political and economic communities, won great wealth and lost it, conquered and were conquered.
The present volume, assembling some of the brightest lights in the field, eloquently testifies to the rich and powerful lessons to be had from such a historical understanding of political economy and of power in an economic age.
Robert Fredona is an Associated Fellow of the Centre for Evolution of Global Business and Institutions at the York Management School, UK. A scholar of Medieval and early modern legal, political, business, and economic history, he has previously taught at Stanford and the University of California at Santa Barbara, as well as been Medici Fellow at Harvard Business School and a visiting scholar in Harvard University's Department of History, USA. Sophus A. Reinert is Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School, USA. A student of political economy, he works on the long histories of capitalism, globalization, development, and business-government relations from the Renaissance to today's emerging markets.
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Genoa, Liguria, and the Regional Development of Medieval Public Debt.- Chapter 3. Angelo degli Ubaldi and the Gulf of the Venetians: Custom, Commerce, and the Control of the Sea before Grotius.- Chapter 4. Capitalism and the Special Economic Zone, 1590-2014.- Chapter 5. Theatrum conomicum: Anders Berch and the Dramatization of the Swedish Improvement Discourse.- Chapter 6. Gulliver's Travels, Party Politics, and Empire.- Chapter 7. Commerce, not Conquest: Political Economic Thought in the French Indies Company, 1719-1769.- Chapter 8. The Economics of the Antipodes: French Naval Exploration, Trade, and Empire in the 19th Century.- Chapter 9. A 'Surreptitious Introduction': Opium Smuggling and Colonial State Formation in Late 19th Century Bengal and Burma.- Chapter 10. A Place in the Sun: Rethinking the Political Economy of German Overseas Expansion and Navalism before the Great War.- Chapter 11. Wesley Mitchell's Business Cycles after 100 Years.- Chapter 12. On a Certain Blindness in Economic Theory: Keynes' Giraffes and the Ordinary Textuality of Economic Ideas.- Chapter 13. Between Economic Planning and Market Competition: Institutional Law and Economics in the US.- Chapter 14. The '73 Graft: Punishment, Political Economy, and the Genealogy of Morals.
"This book is a treasure of interdisciplinary scholarship which provides a truly refreshing new lens on the history of capitalism over the last eight hundred years. As impressive is the overall framing of the book. It serves as a bold manifesto asserting the value of political economy as perspective on the past and future of capitalism in contrast to arid mathematical economics and vacuous cultural history."-Geoffrey Jones, Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Harvard Business School
"This brilliant collection shows not only how important the history of economic thought is for economics, but that the field is experiencing a rebirth. Reinert, Fredona and the contributors to this volume show that the history of political economy is still generally misunderstood. Their goal is to correct that by providing pathbreaking and meticulous scholarship. This visionary book is required reading for anyone who wants to understand the history and origins of capitalism and economics."-Jacob Soll, Professor of History and Accounting, the University of Southern California
| Erscheinungsdatum | 28.01.2019 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XXXII, 413 p. 11 illus., 3 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Gewicht | 582 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte |
| Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik | |
| Schlagworte | Atlantic World • Australasia • Capitalism • Cultural economics • Economic communities • Economic competition • Economic production • Historiography • Middle Ages • Monopoly • political economics • Regional Development |
| ISBN-10 | 3-030-09628-9 / 3030096289 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-030-09628-1 / 9783030096281 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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