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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780705703321

Autore

Finkelstein Andrea <1949->

Titolo

Harmony and the balance : an intellectual history of seventeenth-century English economic thought / / Andrea Finkelstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2000

ISBN

1-282-44513-8

9786612445132

0-472-02384-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Disciplina

330/.0942/09032

Soggetti

Economics - England - History - 17th century

England Economic conditions 17th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-364) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Merchants and the body politic -- Gerard de Malynes: Institutio Mercatoris Christiani -- Edward Misselden and the "natural freedom" of trade -- Thomas Mun and the finite zeitgeist -- Harmony and the "balance of trade" -- Mechanically minded -- The number, weight, and measure of Sir William Petty -- Sir Josiah Child: what price money? -- John Locke: nineteen shillings do not a pound make -- Accounting for economics -- In the balance -- Sir Dudley North: merchants and markets -- Nicholas Barbon and the quality of infinity.