Mercantilist Economics

✍ Scribed by Lars Magnusson (auth.), Lars Magnusson (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 268
• Series: Recent Economic Thought Series 33
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This collection of papers reflects the variety of interpretations and definitions connected with the concept of `mercantilism' which have evolved historically during the last two centuries. They range from interpretations of `mercantilistic' ideas to interpretations of policies. They stress the relationship between economic, social and political ideas and range from the 17th to the late 20th century. Lastly, they provide us with more knowledge of specific national cases as well as a discussion of mercantilism as a general phenomenon.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction....Pages 1-13
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Early Spanish Mercantilism: The First Analysis of Underdevelopment....Pages 17-58
An Appreciation of Mercantilism....Pages 59-85
Conceptions of History and Society in Mercantilism, 1650–1730....Pages 87-124
Mercantilism: A Rent-Seeking Society?....Pages 125-141
Virginian Tobacco During the Reigns of the Early Stuarts: A Case Study of Mercantilist Theories, Policies, and Results....Pages 143-171
Front Matter....Pages 173-173
Mercantilism and the Economics of State Formation....Pages 175-186
Historical Economics and the Revival of Mercantlism Thought in Britain, 1870–1920....Pages 187-219
Neomercantilism in American Official Thinking in the 1920s and Early 1930s....Pages 221-234
The Concept of Neomercantilism....Pages 235-255
Front Matter....Pages 257-257
Concluding Reflections....Pages 259-263
Back Matter....Pages 265-269

✦ Subjects

Methodology and the History of Economic Thought; International Economics