Foundations of Political Economy: Some Early Tudor Views on State and Society

by Neal Wood

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520081455
• ISBN13: 9780520081451
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.6" x 9.0"