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Frequently the achievements of pioneering economic writers are assessed by imposing contemporary theories of markets, economics, politics, and history. At last, here is a book that appraises the work of the leading English economic writers of the seventeenth century using intellectual concepts of the time, rather than present-day analytical models, in order to place their economic theories in context. In an analysis that tracks the Stuart century, Andrea Finkelstein traces the progress of such figures as Gerard de Malynes, William Petty, John Locke, and Charles Davenant by inviting us into the great trading companies and halls of parliament where we relive the debates over the coinage, the i...
Fictions of Credit in the Age of Shakespeare argues that practical texts and plays are "equipment for living": practical texts offer strategies for navigating England's culture of credit, and plays explore credit's dangers and possibilities. Dramatic texts show what it feels like to live in credit culture: to live inside a fiction.
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. In Trade and Nation, Emily Erikson brings together historical, comparative, and computational methods to explain the institutional forces that brought about this transformation. Erikson pinpoints how the rise of the company form in confluence with ...
Neither their theoretical achievements nor their failures can be understood without this context.".
The novels of Daniel Defoe are set in years during which two Anglo-Dutch wars were fought, a Dutch king took over the English throne, and the primacy of the Dutch in Northern European commerce was in the process of being overtaken by the English. At the time of these novels’ publication, the geo-physical, political and cultural achievements of the United Provinces were still remarked upon as extraordinary, while so many people had travelled between the two countries that Dutch communities in England and English communities in the United Provinces were unremarkable. Defoe’s personal, professional and political interests lay parallel and very close to stereotypically Dutch affairs, such as...
Apa yang disebut "mazhab Salamanca" merupakan salah satu momen paling bermanfaat dari pemikiran Spanyol, baik dalam perkembangannya maupun dalam proyeksi intelek-tualnya. Para guru Salamanca, melalui pelajaran dan tulisan mereka, tidak hanya merumuskan teori tetapi juga menawarkan solusi praktis untuk masalah yang dituntut pada zaman mereka: legitimasi penaklukan Spanyol atas Amerika, dominasi politik, Amerendian sebagai subjek hukum dan moral, masalah kemiskinan di Spanyol, penentuan harga yang adil dalam kontrak jual beli, kepemilikan pribadi, hubungan hukum antar negara, kekuasaan, hukum perang, dll. Karenanya, buku ini penulis sajikan secara khusus dan sistematis semua yang berkaitan dengan mazhab yang telah mengembangkan kapasitas dan kompetensi mereka dan juga yang berkontribusi tidak hanya pada pengenalan dan konsoli-dasi metodologi pengajaran, tetapi juga pada penciptaan postur doktrinal sendiri, menghadapi masalah forum filsafat praktis dan teologi moral yang akan datang untuk membentuk gera-kan doktrinal yang hari ini kita namakan dengan "mazhab Salamanca".
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.