Regulating The British Economy 1660 1850

Author : Perry Gauci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317068747

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Regulating the British Economy, 1660–1850 by Perry Gauci Pdf

This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and credit, an international team of leading academics examine the ways in which state and society both advanced and responded to fundamental economic changes. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of economic policy and change in practice. They range broadly over Britain and its empire and also consider Britain's exceptionality through comparative studies. Together, the book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain relationship between the state and economic interests across the long eighteenth century.

Author : Perry Gauci
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Free enterprise
ISBN : 1315604531

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Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850 by Perry Gauci Pdf

Author : Perry Gauci
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317068730

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Regulating the British Economy, 1660–1850 by Perry Gauci Pdf

This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and credit, an international team of leading academics examine the ways in which state and society both advanced and responded to fundamental economic changes. The studies embrace all aspects of the regulatory process, from developing ideas on the economy, to the passage of legislation, and to the negotiation of economic policy and change in practice. They range broadly over Britain and its empire and also consider Britain's exceptionality through comparative studies. Together, the book challenges the general characterization of the period as a shift from a regulated economy to a more laissez-faire system, highlighting the uncertain relationship between the state and economic interests across the long eighteenth century.

Author : Aaron Graham,Patrick Walsh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317039846

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The British Fiscal-Military States, 1660-c.1783 by Aaron Graham,Patrick Walsh Pdf

The concept of the 'fiscal-military state', popularised by John Brewer in 1989, has become familiar, even commonplace, to many historians of eighteenth-century England. Yet even at the time of its publication the book caused controversy, and the essays in this volume demonstrate how recent work on fiscal structures, military and naval contractors, on parallel developments in Scotland and Ireland, and on the wider political context, has challenged the fundamentals of this model in increasingly sophisticated and nuanced ways. Beginning with a historiographical introduction that places The Sinews of Power and subsequent work on the fiscal-military state within its wider contexts, and a commentary by John Brewer that responds to the questions raised by this work, the chapters in this volume explore topics as varied as finance and revenue, the interaction of the state with society, the relations between the military and its contractors, and even the utility of the concept of the fiscal-military state. It concludes with an afterword by Professor Stephen Conway, situating the essays in comparative contexts, and highlighting potential avenues for future research. Taken as a whole, this volume offers challenging and imaginative new perspectives on the fiscal-military structures that underpinned the development of modern European states from the eighteenth century onwards.

Author : Peter Frederick Speed
Publisher : Exeter : Wheaton ; Elmsford, N.Y. : Pergamon Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039298588

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The Growth of the British Economy 1700-1850 by Peter Frederick Speed Pdf

Author : Tai-Yoo Kim,Daeryoon Kim
Publisher : Springer
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811044168

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The Secrets of Hegemony by Tai-Yoo Kim,Daeryoon Kim Pdf

This book revisits the historically different paths to economic development that Spain, the Netherlands, Great Britain and the United States followed at different time periods since the early modern period. Addressing the questions of how economic growth came about in these four countries and why sustained economic growth was achieved only by the two latter economic powers - Great Britain and the United States, it clearly highlights the long-term economic impact of the individual economic systems each country had developed. This discussion draws on two important variables in economic systems: whether its primary activity is agriculture, commerce, or manufacturing, and whether its productive system expands or simply reproduces. From this interpretive framework, the book suggests that the existing literature has not yet paid sufficient attention to the enduring impact on a nation’s long-term economic performance of their differing economic systems - simple agricultural reproduction system (Spain), expansive commercial reinvestment system (the Netherlands), and expansive industrial reproduction system (Great Britain and the United States). The book also demonstrates why sustained economic growth was viable only within an expansive industrial reproduction system, and what conditions Great Britain and the United States had to fulfill to create such an economic system in their specific historical contexts. It concludes by reflecting on the policy implications of the findings on current discussions concerning economic development within the global economy.

Author : Philipp R. Rössner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317397410

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Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy by Philipp R. Rössner Pdf

Economic Growth and the Origins of Modern Political Economy addresses the intellectual foundations of modern economic growth and European industrialization. Through an examination both of the roots of European industrialization and of the history of economic ideas, this book presents a uniquely broad examination of the origins of modern political economy. This volume asks what can we learn from ‘old’ theories in terms of our understanding of history, our economic fate today, and the prospects for the modern world’s poorest countries. Spanning across the past five hundred years, this book brings together leading international contributors offering comparative perspectives with countries outside of Europe in order to place the evolution of modern economic knowledge into a broader reference framework. It integrates economic discourse and the intellectual history of political economy with more empirical studies in economic history and the history of science. In doing so, this innovative volume presents a coherent and innovative new strategy towards a reconfiguration of the history of modern political economy. This book is suitable for those who study history of economic thought, economic history or European history.

Author : Julian Hoppit
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107015258

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Britain's Political Economies by Julian Hoppit Pdf

An innovative account of how thousands of acts of parliament sought to improve economic activity during the early industrial revolution.

Author : Heather Welland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000394252

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Political Economy and Imperial Governance in Eighteenth-Century Britain by Heather Welland Pdf

This book examines the relationship between imperial governance and political economy in eighteenth-century Britain, particularly in Canada and Ireland. It is concerned with the way economic ideology and party politics were mutually constitutive; and with the way extra-parliamentary interests both facilitated, and were co-opted into, strategies of governance and commercial regulation. Rather than treat political economy as a pre-existing intellectual orthodoxy that shaped imperial policymaking, it focuses on the ways in which economic thought was generated in moments of imperial crisis – especially those where politicians, commercial interest groups, and pamphleteer economists were forced to wrestle with the tensions between economic growth, political authority, and social stability. By rooting economic discourse and debate in specific problems of imperial commerce and administration, and by highlighting the many different actors and negotiations that produced economic policy, it argues that the transition from mercantilism to liberalism – the shift from protectionism to free trade – is a flawed description of eighteenth-century developments in economic thought.

Author : Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107038455

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain by Roderick Floud,Jane Humphries,Paul Johnson Pdf

A new edition of the leading textbook on the economic history of Britain since industrialization. Combining the expertise of more than thirty leading historians and economists, Volume 1 tracks Britain's economic history in the period ranging from 1700 to 1870 from industrialisation to global trade and empire. Each chapter provides a clear guide to the major controversies in the field and students are shown how to connect historical evidence with economic theory and apply quantitative methods. New approaches are proposed to classic issues such as the causes and consequences of industrialisation, the role of institutions and the state, and the transition from an organic to an inorganic economy, as well as introducing new issues such as globalisation, convergence and divergence, the role of science, technology and invention, and the growth of consumerism. Throughout the volume, British experience is set within an international context and its performance benchmarked against its global competitors.

Author : Peer Vries
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472526403

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State, Economy and the Great Divergence by Peer Vries Pdf

State, Economy and the Great Divergence provides a new analysis of what has become the central debate in global economic history: the 'great divergence' between European and Asian growth. Focusing on early modern China and Western Europe, in particular Great Britain, this book offers a new level of detail on comparative state formation that has wide-reaching implications for European, Eurasian and global history. Beginning with an overview of the historiography, Peer Vries goes on to extend and develop the debate, critically engaging with the huge volume of literature published on the topic to date. Incorporating recent insights, he offers a compelling alternative to the claims to East-West equivalence, or Asian superiority, which have come to dominate discourse surrounding this issue. This is a vital update to a key issue in global economic history and, as such, is essential reading for students and scholars interested in keeping up to speed with the on-going debates.

Author : Adrian Leonard,D. Pretel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137432728

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The Caribbean and the Atlantic World Economy by Adrian Leonard,D. Pretel Pdf

This collection of essays explores the inter-imperial connections between British, Spanish, Dutch, and French Caribbean colonies, and the 'Old World' countries which founded them. Grounded in primary archival research, the thirteen contributors focus on the ways that participants in the Atlantic World economy transcended imperial boundaries.

Author : Arthur David Gayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011965915

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The Growth and Fluctuation of the British Economy, 1790-1850 by Arthur David Gayer Pdf

Author : Philipp Robinson Rössner
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529211245

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Managing the Wealth of Nations by Philipp Robinson Rössner Pdf

‘Commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government,’ wrote Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations, ‘and with them, the liberty and security of individuals.’ However, Philipp Robinson Rössner shows how, when looked at in the face of history, it has usually been the other way around. This book follows the development of capitalism from the Middle Ages through the industrial revolution to the modern day, casting new light on the areas where premodern political economies of growth and development made a difference. It shows how order and governance provided the foundation for prosperity, growth and the wealth of nations. Written for scholars and students of economic history, this is a pioneering new study that debunks the neoliberal origin myth of how capitalism came into the world.

Author : Philipp von Hörnigk
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783088225

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Austria Supreme (if it so Wishes) (1684): 'A Strategy for European Economic Supremacy by Philipp von Hörnigk Pdf

Austria Supreme (if it so wishes) (1684) provides a translation of and a scholarly introduction to the Austrian-German Mercantilist classic Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will (1684) by Philipp Wilhelm von Hörnigk. Published a few months after the unsuccessful 1683 siege of Vienna by the Turks, a turning point in European history, the book stayed in print for more than 100 years. This was the most widely read German language economic textbook of the period, containing, in a nutshell, the essential ingredients of economic strategy that would make Austria and Europe grow rich and eventually overtake the rest of the world as the first world region that experienced an industrial revolution. In Oesterreich über Alles Wann es Nur Will Hörnigk updates and redefines the Mercantilist political economy – a strategy for achieving national wealth and political strength simultaneously by building up a competitive domestic manufacturing industry with the help of the state. Austria Supreme (if it so wishes) (1684) is the first-ever English translation of a work whose importance for European economic development and the ‘European Miracle’ cannot be overestimated.