LEADER 03809oam 2200577 450 001 9910554277703321 005 20210704161250.0 010 $a0-231-54544-4 024 7 $a10.7312/erik18434 035 $a(CKB)4100000011951303 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6185462 035 $a(DE-B1597)566445 035 $a(OCoLC)1162474030 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231545440 035 $a(PPN)266301452 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011951303 100 $a20210704d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTrade and nation $ehow companies and politics reshaped economic thought /$fEmily Erikson 210 1$aNew York, New York State :$cColumbia University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (311 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aThe Middle Range Series 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter One. The Declining Importance of Fair Exchange -- $tChapter Two. Transformative Debates -- $tChapter Three. Key Actors, Institutions, and Relations -- $tChapter Four. Authors and Their Networks -- $tChapter Five. Representation, Companies, and Publications -- $tChapter Six. Why Not the Dutch? -- $tConclusion -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tINDEX 330 $aIn 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 the political marginalization of English merchants created an opening for public argumentation over economic matters. Independent merchants, who were excluded from state institutions and vast areas of trade, confronted the power and influence of crown-endorsed chartered companies. Their distance from the halls of government drove them to take their case to the public sphere. The number of merchant-authored economic texts rose as members of this class sought to show that their preferred policies would contribute to the benefit of the state and commonwealth. In doing so, they created and disseminated a new moral framework of growth, prosperity, and wealth for evaluating economic behavior. By using computational methods to document these processes, Trade and Nation provides both compelling evidence and a prototype for how methodological innovations can help to provide new insights into large-scale social processes. 606 $aMerchants$xHistory$zGreat Britain$y17th century 606 $aFree trade$xHistory$zGreat Britain$y17th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xCommerce$xHistory$y17th century 610 $aearly modern history. 610 $aeconomic history. 610 $aeconomic sociology. 610 $ahistorical sociology. 610 $ahistory of capitalism. 610 $amercantilism. 615 0$aMerchants$xHistory 615 0$aFree trade$xHistory 676 $a381.0942 686 $aNW 2350$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aErikson$b Emily$01217681 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910554277703321 996 $aTrade and nation$92815938 997 $aUNINA