Trade and Nation: How Companies and Politics Reshaped Economic Thought

by Emily Erikson

Book Overview

In the seventeenth century, English economic theorists lost interest in the moral status of exchange and became increasingly concerned with the roots of national prosperity. This shift marked the origins of classical political economy and provided the foundation for the contemporary discipline of economics. The seventeenth-century revolution in economic thought fundamentally reshaped the way economic processes have been interpreted and understood...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231184352
• ISBN13: 9780231184359
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"