Overview
- Reviews historians debates on markets, capitalism and state formation since the Renaissance with specific respect to economic policies known under the “Mercantilist” and “Cameralist” label
- Provides a concise overview on early modern European economic lives
- Situates the economic literatures of capitalism within the idiosyncratic conditions provided on the ground in early modern Europeodern Europe
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book hinges upon ideas and discourses variously known under labels such as “Mercantilism” and “Cameralism”. Often viewed as antithesis of capitalism, inclusive institutions and good economy in the “West”, this book re-assembles them and builds them into a coherent origin story of modern capitalism. It explores the field of intellectual and conceptual history, especially the history of Renaissance and Mercantilism in a longer history of capitalism. Rather than hindrances, the author argues that Mercantilist and Cameralist political economies presented essential stepping stones of modern capitalism, in Britain and beyond. This book will be of interest to academics and students in general economic history, the history of capitalism, economic development and the history of economic thought.
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Book Title: Freedom and Capitalism in Early Modern Europe
Book Subtitle: Mercantilism and the Making of the Modern Economic Mind
Authors: Philipp Robinson Rössner
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53309-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53308-3Published: 13 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53311-3Published: 13 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53309-0Published: 12 October 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6497
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 175
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Economic History, History of Economic Thought/Methodology