J. Bohorquez (Portugal University of Lisbon)

Global Commerce in the Age of Enlightenment

Theories, Practices, and Institutions in the Eighteenth Century

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Produktbeschreibung

Combining contextual, institutional and global perspectives, this book evaluates the impact of international trade on eighteenth-century economic thought. It meticulously delineates how economic ideas and institutions flowed between North and South Europe and across the Indian and Atlantic Oceans during the Age of Enlightenment.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9781032310732
• ISBN-10: 1032310731
• Artikelnr.: 70934796

Autorenporträt

J. Bohorquez is a researcher at the Instituto de Ciencias Sociais, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He was a fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: On global commerce: topoi, utopias, and the existential
production of knowledge. Part I: "The granary of the universe" Travelogues,
observations, evidence, and a global history of property. 1. Pierre Poivre:
A microglobal life. 2. Eighteenth-century travel accounts: Platforms for
economic observations. 3. Feudal Laws: Liberties for a few. 4. An empirical
turn: Evidence and the attack on the economists. Chapter 5. Property
rights: A global history. Part II: "A universal warehouse of workforce"
Re-industrialisation, delocalisation, de-urbanisation, and the propagation
of economic maxims. 6. Ange Goudar: Does the republic of economists need
transgressive authors?. 7. The will to know: The praxis of economic maxims.
8. The will to write: North and South Europe in transnational perspective.
9. Industry's geometry and geography. 10. Materialising ideas: A chamber of
Agriculture. Part III: "A universal intercourse of traffic as is desired"
Free ports, fairs, and institutional evolution in a global perspective. 11.
Free ports: the idol of all economists. 12. Lasting and unlasting
markets: From Medieval fairs to free ports. 13. Institutional diversity:
Free ports, the Navigation Act, and the Drawback system. 14. A
Mediterranean silk road: Venice, Genoa, and Piedmont. 15. Tyre and
Carthage: Failed projects and new glocal fairs. Conclusion. Bibliography.