Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy

Philipp Robinson Rössner is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Manchester, UK

Part I. Manufacturing Matters – The History of an Old Idea










Philipp Robinson Rössner, New Inroads into Well-Known Territory? On the Virtues of re-discovering Pre-Classical Political Economy













Erik S. Reinert (with Ken Carpenter), German Language Economic Bestsellers before 1850. Also Introducing Giovanni Botero as a Common Reference Point of Cameralism and Mercantilism




Part II. Economic Ideas and Idiosyncrasy – The Example of Cameralism








Lars Magnusson, Was Cameralism really the German Version of Mercantilism?







Jürgen Backhaus, Mercantilism and Cameralism. Two Very Different Variations on the Same Theme







Bertram Schefold, Goethe’s Economics – Between Cameralism and Liberalism




Part III. Vested Interests, Contingency and The Shaping of the Free Trade Doctrine








Moritz Isenmann, From Privilege to Economic Law. Vested Interests and the Origins of Free Trade Theory in France (1687–1701)







William J. Ashworth – The Demise of Regulation and Rise of Political Economy: Taxation, Industry and Fiscal Pressure in Britain 1763-1815




Part IV. Knowledge, Risk and the Idea of Infinite Growth






Marcus Sandl, Development as Possibility. Risk and Chance in the Cameralist Discourse







Carl Wennerlind, The Political Economy of Sweden’s Age of Greatness: Johan Risingh and the Hartlib Circle




Part V. Economic Growth and the State – From India to Italy








Prasannan Parthasarathi – State Formation and Economic Growth in South Asia, 1600-1800







Peer Vries, Economic Reasons of State in Qing China: A Brief Comparative Overview







Ann Coenen, Infant Industry Protectionism and Early Modern Growth? Evidence from Eighteenth-Century Entrepreneurial Petitions in the Austrian Netherlands







Sophus Reinert, Achtung! Banditi! An Alternative Genealogy of the Market




Part VI. Economic Reason of State and its Survival in Modern Economic Discourse








Francesco Boldizzoni, The Long Shadow of Cameralism: The Atlantic Order and its Discontents