Harmony and the Balance: An Intellectual History of Seventeenth-Century English Economic Thought

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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part 1. Geist vs. Weltanschauung 1. Merchants and the Body Politic 15 2. Gerard de Malynes: Institutio Mercatoris Christiani 26 3. Edward Misselden and the “Natural Freedom” of Trade 54 4. Thomas Mun and the Finite Zeitgeist 74 5. Harmony and the “Balance of Trade” 89 Part 2.The New Model Economics 6. Mechanically Minded 101 7. The Number, Weight, and Measure of Sir William Petty 107 8. Sir Josiah Child: What Price Money? 130 9. John Locke: Nineteen Shillings do not a Pound make 147 10. Accounting for Economics 171 Part 3. Balance vs. Equilibrium 11. In the Balance 179 12. Sir Dudley North: Merchants and Markets 186 13. Nicholas Barbon and the Quality of In‹nity 205 14. Charles Davenant and the Brave New World 219 Conclusion 247 Notes 267 Bibliography 345 Index 365 viii Contents ...