Managing the wealth of nations : political economies of change in preindustrial Europe /
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Bristol, UK :
Bristol University Press,
2023.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Managing the Wealth of Nations: Political Economies of Change in Preindustrial Europe
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Inventing Dynamics
- A tale of two models: the Wealth of Nations reconsidered
- Coal but no colonies: political economy in the German-speaking lands and Marx's missed opportunity
- What has been missing in the story of the wealth of nations? A summary of the argument
- 2 Governing the Future
- Working for posterity
- Concepts of growth: Begriffsgeschichte and early modern capitalism
- The Great War, cameralism and the origins of prospective thinking
- Meanings of 'future' in early modern Europe
- Modelling the oeconomic future and early modern capitalism
- 3 The Myth of the Myopic State
- Prologue: Potatoes, stewardship and kings
- Benevolent or bellicose states
- Princes, mirrors and happiness: oeconomies of statecraft from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution
- What could states do in the age of capitalism's rise, 1250s-1850s?
- 4 Configuring Free Markets
- Moral debates in the age of the free market, 1890s
- Of markets and men: modern models and market enchantments
- Markets, time and spatiality
- Well-ordered police states? The myth of over-regulated markets, 1250s-1850s
- Strategies of market order, 1250s-1800s
- Beyond the Industrial Revolution and the moral economy: back to the 1890s
- Markets in theory: a continental perspective, 1250s-1850s
- 5 Money and the Rise of Modern Capitalism
- Early modern money's dirty hidden lives
- Money and political economies of state formation
- Money supply and continental visions of market economy, 1500s-1900s
- Advocates of stable money
- Advocati Diaboli: playing around with exchange rates
- Monetary policy and economic life in the age of early capitalism, 1250s-1850s
- 6 Velocity!
- Burying money: hoarding as a danger to the common weal
- Hoarding and velocity in the history of concepts and of economic thought
- Coins and the dynamics of capitalism
- Transforming oeconomy: velocity, urbanization and the manufacturing of capitalism
- 7 Creating Wealth
- Manufacturing capitalism: between concepts, policies and ideas
- Mercantilism, manufacturing and the history of an old idea, 1500s-2000s
- Lost in translation? Culture, popular enlightenment and the powers of space
- 8 Manufacturing Wealth
- The little manufactory, a baron and the white gold
- Oeconomies of failure and success: between Smithian and Schumpeterian growth
- Manufacturing capitalism in early modern Europe
- Free trade France and ancien régime economics
- Habsburg and the Hörnigk moment
- Scotland: cradle of capitalism, or, how to bury your dead?
- Sweden and the Age of Greatness, 1650-1850
- On silver rocks, Schumpeterian states and a 'culture of growth': early modern industrial Germany, 1400s-1900s